Jenkins Reviews

Name: Jenkins
Brand: Jenkins
Rating: 4.0 (93 reviews)

4.0 out of 5

93 reviews
87% willing to recommend

What is Jenkins?

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

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Jenkins is the #3 ranked solution in top Build Automation solutions. PeerSpot users give Jenkins an average rating of 8.0 out of 10. Jenkins is most commonly compared to GitLab: Jenkins vs GitLab. Jenkins is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 71% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 20% of all views.

Helped 863,331 peers since 2012

Featured Jenkins reviews

Annamalai Pts

DevOps Engineer at Tech Mahindra Limited

I use Jenkins as a CI/CD tool. We create pipelines using Jenkins, with stages for Maven builds, Docker image builds, SonarQube integration, and deploying the image to a Kubernetes cluster, AWS EKS Jenkins has made the developers' work very easy. They commit to the remote repository, and…

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Moloko Mokubedi

Junior DevOps Engineer at Kartoza (Pty) Ltd

We use Jenkins for CI/CD and infrastructure automation. It is primarily used for application deployment, and we deploy Docker containers to our Kubernetes cluster For CI/CD and automation, it is more application deployment, and we use it to deploy Docker containers to our Kubernetes cluster.…

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Dinesh-Patil

Consultant at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The dashboard needs to be improved. Though the access management and authentication functionalities are present, the dashboard and UI could be more user-friendly. The product has many plug-ins. Users have to go through the documentation to be able to use the product. The UI must be more user-friendly. The information should be available in the dashboard itself. The users shouldn’t have to refer to the documentation. When a user hovers over the elements on the dashboard, it should reveal information about them.

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Jenkins mindshare

As of July 2025, the mindshare of Jenkins in the Build Automation category stands at 10.5%, down from 12.7% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Build Automation

PeerResearch reports based on Jenkins reviews

Type	Title	Date
Category	Build Automation	Jul 23, 2025	Download
Product	Reviews, tips, and advice from real users	Jul 23, 2025	Download
Comparison	Jenkins vs GitLab	Jul 23, 2025	Download
Comparison	Jenkins vs Tekton	Jul 23, 2025	Download
Comparison	Jenkins vs GitHub Actions	Jul 23, 2025	Download

Title	Rating	Mindshare	Recommending
GitLab	4.2	15.0%	97%	85 interviews Add to research
VMware Tanzu Platform	4.0	1.0%	100%	22 interviews Add to research

Valuable Features

"We benefit from Kubernetes' ability to autoscale pods and use horizontal pod autoscalers to adjust the number of pods based on metrics like CPU or memory usage, ensuring efficient resource allocation and stability under load."
"Jenkins is free and open source."
"Jenkins is a CI/CD tool and is the most robust tool."

Room for Improvement

"We sometimes face challenges during version upgrades, such as failures when migrating Kubernetes versions."
"Jenkins can sometimes run slow, especially when restarting after a plugin installation or when returning from a pipeline view to the dashboard."
"The major drawback with Jenkins is the lack of support."

Pricing

Jenkins is predominantly free and open-source, making it a cost-effective solution for enterprises. Many users highlight its lack of licensing and setup costs, although some invest in server hardware for deployment. Organizations using the enterprise edition find it more costly but appreciate additional features and support. The lack of ongoing costs and the extensive community support make the open-source version appealing, while the enterprise edition offers advanced functionalities for those willing to pay.