We performed a comparison between IBM Rational Build Forge and Jenkins based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about GitLab, Jenkins, Google and others in Build Automation."All features are useful. Our customer doesn't have any complaints about the tool. It works pretty well for what they want and what they need to do."
"Very good reporting features."
"Jenkins has built good plugins and has a good security platform."
"Has enabled full automation of the company."
"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."
"This solution has helped us in automating the build and test process, reducing time."
"Jenkins is a very mature product."
"Configuration management: It is so easy to configure a Jenkins instance. Migrate configuration to a new environment just by copying XML files and setting up new nodes."
"It's very useful when you want to automate different processes from beginning to end."
"Having builds and test tasks triggered on commit helps not to break the product."
"Its logging can be improved. When something goes wrong, it is not always very easy to find the problem. It is hard to identify whether the problem is because of low memory in the server or some configuration in Rational Build Forge. The error logs are not very detailed, and they should provide more information. It should also have more integration with third-party tools. It would be great to have more integration with third-party tools."
"Not user friendly for the layman."
"Jenkins could improve the integration with other platforms."
"It could be cheaper."
"Its schedule builds need improvement. It should have scheduling features in the platform rather than using external plug-ins."
"Support should be provided at no cost, as there is no free support available for any of the free versions."
"The support for the latest Java Runtime Environment should be improved."
"Upgrading and maintaining plugins can be painful, as sometimes upgrading a plugin can break functionality of another plugin that a job is dependent on."
"There are some difficulties when we need to execute the DB script."
"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."
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IBM Rational Build Forge is ranked 19th in Build Automation while Jenkins is ranked 2nd in Build Automation with 83 reviews. IBM Rational Build Forge is rated 9.0, while Jenkins is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Rational Build Forge writes "Great reporting features and very functional". 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". IBM Rational Build Forge is most compared with Bamboo and Digital.ai Release , whereas Jenkins is most compared with GitLab, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, Tekton and Harness.
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