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ClearScale Windows Server 2025 vs Jenkins on CentOS 10 comparison

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Categories and Ranking

ClearScale Windows Server 2025
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
428th
Average Rating
10.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Jenkins on CentOS 10
Ranking in AWS Marketplace
449th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
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Featured Reviews

reviewer2858658 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Automated hardening has standardized our servers and reduces effort for secure Windows workloads
The first-boot time is longer than a stock Windows AMI. Sysprep and the initial hardening pass add a noticeable delay before the instance is reachable, which is something to account for if you autoscale and need nodes ready quickly. The hardened defaults also occasionally trip up common installers and agents. A few of our deployment and monitoring tools assumed services or policies that the image had locked down, so we had to add exceptions. A short compatibility checklist of what the hardening changes from a default Windows install would have saved us that debugging. I would also like the option of a CIS Level 2 build for our more sensitive workloads since the image currently only ships a Level 1 baseline. Thanks.
Lucas Dantas - PeerSpot reviewer
Fullstack Developer at Not Provided
Automation has accelerated deployments and standardizes pipelines while reducing operational errors
To improve Jenkins on CentOS 10, there are some challenges we ran into, especially when we first started using it. We missed clearer documentation, both for Jenkins as code and for some environment configurations. As a result, a lot of configurations were learned manually through tests with the team. We also missed more stable plugin updates. We had many problems with incompatibility between plugin versions in Jenkins on CentOS 10. What makes those situations challenging is that we had problems starting and restarting the Jenkins on CentOS 10 application when we needed to reuse plugins from the previous version. Once we updated some plugins to the required version, others became incompatible with the current version. It became a cycle where we had to update Jenkins on CentOS 10, the versions of the plugins we used, and the versions of the plugins they depended on, which made configuration and startup quite difficult in some cases.

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Pros

"Windows Server 2025 is a strong fit for enterprise environments heavily reliant on Microsoft technologies."
"Because the image arrives CIS Level 1 hardened with the AWS tooling already in place, our servers come up patched, locked down, and ready to join the domain without a separate build out pass."
"Jenkins on CentOS 10 has had a very positive impact on my organization. It gave us predictability and automation."
"Jenkins on CentOS 10 has impacted us positively, mainly because of the open-source nature, and we can customize it to run parallel jobs to reduce the amount of time taken for deployments, reducing it by approximately 40%."
"My advice to other people who are thinking about using Jenkins on CentOS 10 is that they can use it. It is a very secure tool that speeds up processes and links other tools in a very secure and easy way."
"With Shared Libraries, I do not need that. I can have one controller and call it in other pipelines as well. I declare it in Jenkins, indicate the repo where it is, and any pipeline that wants to use it just needs to call that method, because when you start the build, it already loads into memory what you need to use. That is really cool."
"The best features Jenkins on CentOS 10 offers in my experience are the automation aspect and CI/CD, which I use a lot."
"That level of detail helps me a lot because I can understand the stage that is running and what is actually happening, literally, in that stage."
"Jenkins on CentOS 10 has had a positive impact on my organization by making delivery routines easier, avoiding errors and rework."
"The Pipeline as Code aspect I mentioned is the most useful feature for us."
 

Cons

"The hardened defaults also occasionally trip up common installers and agents: a few of our deployment and monitoring tools assumed services or policies that the image had locked down, so we had to add exceptions."
"Initial configuration complexity can still be high for teams without prior Windows Server expertise."
"I give Jenkins on CentOS 10 a score of 8 because I see that some plugins are maintained by the community and are not actually supported by Jenkins."
"Jenkins also has a simple scheme that is good but risky: you can copy the /var/lib/jenkins folder, which stores all the service data, and move it to a new server."
"I believe Jenkins on CentOS 10 can be improved with enhancements such as the Docker image in the Docker container."
"I believe Jenkins on CentOS 10 could be improved by updating its interface, making it a bit more intuitive and modern."
"I believe Jenkins on CentOS 10 can be improved by allowing some customizations in the dashboard in a more immediate way."
"Jenkins on CentOS 10 is somewhat dated when compared to other pipelines."
"For improvements to Jenkins on CentOS 10, I believe its plugins need to go through some reviews."
"I think the overall performance of Jenkins on CentOS 10 could be improved because it ends up consuming a bit more memory."
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ClearScale Windows Server 2025?
The software charge sits on top of the underlying Windows EC2 cost, which is already higher than Linux, so model both together before you commit to a large fleet. The hourly model suited our autosc...
What needs improvement with ClearScale Windows Server 2025?
The first-boot time is longer than a stock Windows AMI. Sysprep and the initial hardening pass add a noticeable delay before the instance is reachable, which is something to account for if you auto...
What is your primary use case for ClearScale Windows Server 2025?
We use ClearScale Windows Server 2025 as the base image for our .NET and IIS application servers on EC2. These instances host internal line of business web applications and Windows services, and se...
What needs improvement with Jenkins on CentOS 10?
Jenkins on CentOS 10 is somewhat dated when compared to other pipelines. I would suggest improving the build performance and using distributed agents instead of running every build on the controlle...
What is your primary use case for Jenkins on CentOS 10?
For Jenkins on CentOS 10, we are mostly using it as a CI/CD pipeline to deploy our traditional applications on our healthcare platform.
What advice do you have for others considering Jenkins on CentOS 10?
I would rate Jenkins on CentOS 10 overall as an eight on a scale of one to ten. From my perspective, Jenkins on CentOS 10 has both advantages and disadvantages. Based on that consideration, I chose...
 

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