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Jenkins vs Microsoft Azure comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Jenkins
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
93
Ranking in other categories
Build Automation (3rd)
Microsoft Azure
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
313
Ranking in other categories
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) (1st), PaaS Clouds (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

Jenkins and Microsoft Azure aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Jenkins is designed for Build Automation and holds a mindshare of 10.4%, down 13.5% compared to last year.
Microsoft Azure, on the other hand, focuses on Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS), holds 18.7% mindshare, up 18.3% since last year.
Build Automation
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
 

Featured Reviews

Dinesh-Patil - PeerSpot reviewer
A highly-scalable and stable solution that reduces deployment time and produces a significant return on investment
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.
Nicolas Chabrier - PeerSpot reviewer
Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration
The only thing is regarding the management of multi-cloud environments. That's not really possible. So basically, it's wonderful if you manage Microsoft clearly and if you manage Microsoft Azure, but if you need to consume external services and have a global overview of all your consumption, it's not the case. Google, for instance, has tools that help you manage multiple environments, which makes sense because Google is really the cloud provider. So that's why they need to be compliant with the others. But for sure, Microsoft's approach is different, and it's wonderful when you're one hundred percent on Azure. But if you'd like to have something more of a multi-cloud strategy, that's a bit of a gap where they could improve.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Jenkins is very stable."
"A lot of support material exists via a single web search of exactly what you're looking for."
"Has a good interface, is reliable and saves time."
"The auto-schedule feature is valuable. Another valuable feature is that Jenkins does not trigger a build when there is no change in any of the systems. Jenkins also supports most of the open-source plug-ins."
"This is a great integration tool and very powerful."
"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."
"Also, the ability to customize these plugins is valuable. Its user-friendliness stands out, especially in its user interface which allows easy installation and configuration."
"User interface and portal are great."
"The most valuable features I have found to be the auto-scaling feature and the interface."
"Great features at a good price."
"Kubernetes service and API management are the most valuable."
"We've found the solution to be extremely flexible."
"It is so huge and so powerful. The best thing is the possibilities of things that you can actually do with it. If you do it right, you can work or host your stuff a lot cheaper than traditionally. Its security is good, and it also reduces the strain on internal IT."
"The stability has been excellent."
"Azure is stable. I don't have any problems with it."
 

Cons

"Some kind of SaaS product would be helpful in providing organizational structure."
"Jenkins could improve by adding the ability to edit test automation and make time planning better because it is difficult. It should be easier to do."
"The scriptwriting process could be improved in this solution in the future."
"The support for the latest Java Runtime Environment should be improved."
"I would like to have an integrated dashboard on top of it and a better UX to look at. The dashboard could be better in terms of integration with other tools. We should be able to have a single pane of glass across all the tools that we use where Jenkins is the pipeline. This can be a very good upgrade to it."
"The UI must be more user-friendly."
"It would be helpful if they had a bit more interactive UI."
"Partition security for the workflow of projects is not yet an option."
"Technical support needs improvement."
"Any time you use a cloud service, there are increased security risks. If you want more security, you have to have private hosting."
"There should be more language options for the Azure Functions apps. It supports programming languages, but there are only a few options. It could have more programming languages."
"Azure calculator could be improved, there are issues with login synchronization."
"They're already doing quite a bit. I'm not unsatisfied with anything that they're doing right now. They can maybe make the transitions a little smoother and improve its pricing. The pricing for the end-user packages is a bit high."
"Sometimes performance takes a hit on a slow network."
"The solution could improve by providing better tutorials and documentation."
"The security of the solution could always be much better."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is an open-source solution for the basic features. However, if an organization wishes to include specific functionality, outside of the basic package, there are extra costs involved."
"It is a cheap solution."
"Jenkins is an open-source tool."
"We are using the freeware version of Jenkins."
"It could be cheaper because there are many solutions available in the market. We are paying yearly."
"It is an open source."
"Jenkins is a free solution, it is open source."
"We are using the free version of Jenkins. There is not a license required to use the solution because it is open-source."
"As of now, there are no monthly or yearly subscription fees."
"The subscription models can be confusing and it would be beneficial for them to simplify them. We are on an annual subscription."
"Its price should be optimized so that we can use more features."
"The pricing for us is higher because we are using IaaS."
"The pricing is fair and it was actually just reduced. My organization is paying approximately $100,000 annually with close to one thousand users. There are no additional fees."
"Licensing costs for Enterprise are on an annual basis."
"Reducing the price would be of benefit to our customers."
"Their licensing costs might be a little bit lower, compared to AWS, but I'm not sure. I think we get licenses, especially on long-term projects, on a yearly basis. It could be cheaper."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
22%
Computer Software Company
18%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Government
6%
Educational Organization
43%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

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