We performed a comparison between Harness and Jenkins based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about GitLab, Jenkins, Google and others in Build Automation."It's a highly customizable DevOps tool."
"It has a lot of community posts and support."
"When we have manual tasks, we have to depend on multiple technical teams. With Jenkins, we can bring all the technologies together by the click of a button. We can see results without having to depend on different teams. Jenkins makes life easy for the database and DevOps teams."
"Jenkins integrates with multiple tools like Bitbucket and makes life easier. We don't have to write a lot of code since a lot of libraries are available."
"The most valuable features of Jenkins are creating builds, and connecting them with Sonar for Sonar analysis. Additionally, we connect it with other vulnerability tools, such as WhiteSource which is useful."
"Jenkins is a very mature product."
"Jenkins is very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Jenkins is its open source."
"Jenkins has a lot of built-in packages and tools."
"There's also room for improvement in debugging pipeline issues, which can sometimes become complex."
"I would like them to provide space for people to have a central node that stores all the logs of workspace information in a distributed fashion to facilitate backup and restoration. Currently, everything is stored on one node, so you need to set up distributed storage or an endpoint that you can use for backing up your information."
"The documentation could be more friendly, and more examples of how to use it."
"UI is quite outdated."
"Jenkins can be improved, but it's difficult for me to explain. The initial setup could be more straightforward. If you connect Jenkins with bookings and lockouts, it can be challenging."
"The UI of Jenkins could improve."
"Sometimes you have Jenkins restarting because of OOM errors."
"Jenkins can improve by continuing to add additional plugins for all the new solutions that are coming out within the cloud sphere."
"We cannot change the ownership of any directory or file or any kind of directory."
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Harness is ranked 12th in Build Automation with 1 review while Jenkins is ranked 2nd in Build Automation with 83 reviews. Harness is rated 7.0, while Jenkins is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Harness writes "Provides a good graphical interface, but the initial setup process needs improvement ". 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". Harness is most compared with Tekton, Bamboo, TeamCity, GitHub Actions and GitLab, whereas Jenkins is most compared with GitLab, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, IBM Rational Build Forge and Bazel.
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