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We performed a comparison between Concourse for VMware Tanzu and Jenkins based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"We never experienced any problems with scalability."

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"Jenkins has built good plugins and has a good security platform.""It can scale easily.""Distributed execution of build and test jobs.""Very easy to understand for newcomers.""Having builds and test tasks triggered on commit helps not to break the product.""Jenkins' most valuable feature is Pipeline.""Jenkins allows us to automate deployment, so I no longer have to do it manually. That's the primary use case. The other advantage of Jenkins is that it's open source. It was free for me to download and install. It's a product that's been in use for many years, so I can find a lot of support online for any issues that I may encounter while configuring anything for a given use case.""The solution is scalable and concurrent users have access to the platform."

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Cons
"I would like to see additional support for things outside of Cloud Foundry."

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"Jenkins is an old product, and we encounter performance issues and slow response. Also, some of the plugins are not stable.""There are some difficulties when we need to execute the DB script.""Jenkins could simplify the user interface a little bit because it sometimes creates too many features cramped in the UI.""Upgrading and maintaining plugins can be painful, as sometimes upgrading a plugin can break functionality of another plugin that a job is dependent on.""Its schedule builds need improvement. It should have scheduling features in the platform rather than using external plug-ins.""This solution would be improved with the inclusion of an Artifactory (Universal artifact repository manager).""Jenkins could improve the integration with other platforms.""Jenkins is not an easy solution to use and the configuration is not simple. They can improve the solution by adding a graphical interface that is more user-friendly."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The solution is bundled in with Cloud Foundry so the pricing is not independent."
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  • "It is a free product."
  • "Jenkins is open source."
  • "​It is free.​"
  • "Some of the add-ons are too expensive."
  • "It's free software with a big community behind it, which is very good."
  • "I used the free OSS version all the time. It was enough for all my needs."
  • "Jenkins is open source and free."
  • "There is no cost. It is open source."
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    Anonymous User
    Moving to TeamCity from Jenkins At work, we’re slowly migrating from Jenkins to TeamCity in the hope of ending some of our recurring problems with continuous integration. My use of Jenkins prior to this job has been almost strictly on a personal basis, although I pretty much only use Travis nowadays. The biggest difference upon initial inspection is that TeamCity is far more focused on validating individual commits rather than certain types of tests. Jenkins’ front page presents information that is simply not useful in a non-linear development environment, where people are often working in vastly different directions. How many of the previous tests passed/failed is not really salient information in this kind of situation. Running specific tests for individual commits on TeamCity is far more trivial in terms of interface complexity than Jenkins. TeamCity just involves clicking the ”…” button in the corner on any test type (although I wish it wasn’t so easy to click “Run” by accident). I generally find TeamCity a lot more intuitive than Jenkins out of the box. There’s a point at which you feel that if you have to scour the documentation to do anything remotely complex in an application, you’re dealing with a bad interface. One disappointing thing in both is that inter-branch merges improperly trigger e-mails to unrelated committers. I suppose it is fairly difficult to determine who to notify about failure in situations like these, though. It seems like TeamCity pulls up the… Read more →
    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:We never experienced any problems with scalability.
    Top Answer:The solution is bundled in with Cloud Foundry so the pricing is not independent.
    Top Answer:The biggest gap for me was just that the solution is relatively tied to Cloud Foundry. If you have anything you need to deploy outside of that, it becomes burdensome. I would like to see additional… more »
    Top Answer:When you are evaluating tools for automating your own GitOps-based CI/CD workflow, it is important to keep your requirements and use cases in mind. Tekton deployment is complex and it is not very easy… more »
    Top Answer:Jenkins has been instrumental in automating our build and deployment processes.
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    Rating
    7.0
    2nd
    out of 41 in Build Automation
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    Average Words per Review
    388
    Rating
    7.8
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    Also Known As
    Pivotal Concourse, Concourse for PCF, Concourse
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    Overview

    Continuous integration for application developers:

    Concourse for VMware Tanzu is a CI/CD system remastered for teams that practice agile development and deliver frequently to one or many cloud platforms.

    Jenkins is an award-winning application that monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cron.

    Sample Customers
    Verizon, Cerner, Zipcar, Avarteq
    Airial, Clarus Financial Technology, cubetutor, Metawidget, mysocio, namma, silverpeas, Sokkva, So Rave, tagzbox
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm18%
    Comms Service Provider13%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Government10%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm33%
    Computer Software Company23%
    Media Company9%
    Comms Service Provider9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm20%
    Computer Software Company17%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Government6%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise74%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business27%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise58%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise72%
    Buyer's Guide
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    March 2024
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    Concourse for VMware Tanzu is ranked 15th in Build Automation with 1 review while Jenkins is ranked 2nd in Build Automation with 83 reviews. Concourse for VMware Tanzu is rated 7.0, while Jenkins is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Concourse for VMware Tanzu writes "This solution is scalable and stable, but needs more support for deployments outside of Cloud Foundry". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Jenkins writes "A highly-scalable and stable solution that reduces deployment time and produces a significant return on investment". Concourse for VMware Tanzu is most compared with Tekton, TeamCity, GitLab, Bamboo and Harness, whereas Jenkins is most compared with GitLab, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline and IBM Rational Build Forge.

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