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We performed a comparison between Jenkins and SemaphoreCI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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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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    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 →
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    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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    Overview

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

    With Semaphore, you can easily automate the process of software testing and delivery in the cloud. It is designed to be easy to use and engineered for high performance. It automatically test your app after every change, thus finding bugs before they reach your users. Whenever somebody pushes new code to GitHub or Bitbucket, Semaphore immediately runs all tests, along with any security and style checks that you’ve defined. Once you start using Semaphore, every build automatically becomes a part of the GitHub or Bitbucket pull request review process. It tests multiple projects and branches simultaneously as you push new commits. By default Semaphore automatically builds every new branch in your Git repository. Semaphore’s custom-made platform for Docker equips you with unrestricted access to latest Docker CLI toolchain, including container image caching. Safety net provided by automated CI builds: check. Next up: move even faster with continuous deployment. With a unified workflow for the entire team, Semaphore enables the team to roll-in revisions and gain feedback faster by automatically deploying verified versions of code.
    Sample Customers
    Airial, Clarus Financial Technology, cubetutor, Metawidget, mysocio, namma, silverpeas, Sokkva, So Rave, tagzbox
    Dribble, Art Sy, 500px, General Assembly, CrunchBase, Lexmark
    Top Industries
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    Financial Services Firm33%
    Computer Software Company23%
    Media Company9%
    Comms Service Provider9%
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    Financial Services Firm20%
    Computer Software Company17%
    Manufacturing Company11%
    Government6%
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    Small Business27%
    Midsize Enterprise16%
    Large Enterprise58%
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    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise72%
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    Jenkins is ranked 2nd in Build Automation with 83 reviews while SemaphoreCI is ranked 23rd in Build Automation. Jenkins is rated 8.0, while SemaphoreCI is rated 0.0. The top reviewer of Jenkins writes "A highly-scalable and stable solution that reduces deployment time and produces a significant return on investment". On the other hand, Jenkins is most compared with GitLab, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, IBM Rational Build Forge and Tekton, whereas SemaphoreCI is most compared with CircleCI and GitHub Actions.

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