--- title: Jenkins Reviews meta_title: 'Jenkins Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 569 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Jenkins works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 569 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-17' parent_category: name: CI/CD Tools url: https://www.g2.com/categories/ci-cd-tools --- # Jenkins Reviews **Vendor:** The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) **Category:** [Continuous Integration Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/continuous-integration) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 569 ## About Jenkins The leading open source automation server, Jenkins provides hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying and automating any project. ## Jenkins Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of Jenkins, enhancing their development workflow with seamless integration capabilities. (27 reviews) - Users love Jenkins for its **seamless integrations** with various tools, enhancing automation and development efficiency. (20 reviews) - Users appreciate the **extensive plugin ecosystem** of Jenkins, enabling seamless integration with various tools and codebases. (18 reviews) - Users appreciate the **extensive plugin support** in Jenkins, enabling seamless integration with various tools and platforms. (17 reviews) - Users value the **automation capabilities** of Jenkins, appreciating its flexibility, extensive plugins, and scalability for various environments. (14 reviews) - Users value Jenkins for its **automation efficiency** , ensuring smooth continuous integration and delivery processes with extensive support. (13 reviews) - Flexibility (13 reviews) - Easy Integrations (12 reviews) - CD Integration (11 reviews) - Pipeline Management (11 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users often face **plugin issues** in Jenkins, including compatibility problems and high memory consumption with multiple plugins. (16 reviews) - Users find the **confusing interface** of Jenkins outdated, making setup and management of pipelines a challenge. (12 reviews) - Users find the **difficult setup** of Jenkins cumbersome, requiring significant time for configurations and plugin management. (9 reviews) - Users find Jenkins' **user interface outdated** , which complicates usability and overall experience. (9 reviews) - Users find Jenkins' **complexity** in setup and management a significant hurdle, impacting usability and efficiency. (8 reviews) - Users experience **complex setup** challenges with Jenkins, particularly due to the intricate configuration and plugin management. (8 reviews) - Performance Issues (8 reviews) - Users find the **UI outdated** and complex, making setup and management challenging, especially for newcomers. (8 reviews) - Update Issues (7 reviews) - Difficult Management (6 reviews) ## Jenkins Reviews ### 1. Jenkins is a good tool for automation **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 05, 2018 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** Its very easy to integrate with various tools **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** not much functionalities while going with pipeline **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is an open source tool with great community support. It has thousands of plugins to ease your work. If a plugin does not exist, you can code it and share with the community. ### 2. Jenkins Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2018 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** Jenkins Tools in our system provided the ability to deploy the code from repository - GIT/Perforce P4V to production org directly on one shot automated version as point and click without ant build target execution as we did earlier. **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** There are few instances where we requested duplicate deployments as the first time it didnt go through for some reason like force sync was missing etc.. **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** scrum teams /Release management teams can easy to handle deployments of local sandboxes to production orgs ### 3. Jenkins Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** Easy to use, easier to configure, simple and works! most of the time. Various plugins available to integrate your codebase so you can run your test or build. **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** The UI to configure the Jobs is not user friendly. sometimes, its lacking the modern day development practices such as if you can integrate some other channel or Bots to fire the jobs. **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins:** One of the most popular platform and easier to use **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our Build and Deployment platform is Jenkins ### 4. Simple quick CI tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 15, 2018 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** Easy integration and sinple to use For DevOps activities **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** Not a blocker but use of multiple plugins for a single job **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automation and CI tool for DevOps. It is simple and has a larger knowledge base than other tools in the market. Supports multiple languages and OS as well ### 5. Best product for continuous integration **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Automotive | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** Automation of the deployment. Easy use of interface to deploy new builds **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** None as of now. Hope I won't find anything in future **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins:** I would surely recommend using Jenkins for an organization looking to do continuous deliveries **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** Continuous Integration deployment ### 6. OK if have no other choice **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2018 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** Very configurable, lots of plugins, versatile **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** OLD, so old, u need to learn java, groovy, jobs dls, jenkins dsl, etc. **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins:** Choose a more modern CI/CD system if u can **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automatic builds/deployments ### 7. Jenkins the Tool for CICD Pipeline **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** I have started using Jenkins since last 1 year and since then its easy to do build and deployment on required windows, Linux, Unix servers. We just have to configure the job as per our requirements and then its easy by just one click build and deployment. For my current project, we have created a complete CICD pipeline where in we build from develop branch and deploy to production with passing requirements like SONAR analysis of code, uploading package to Nexus Repository,checking on test cases using Jasmine test & nUNIT test and also staging packages to stage location and then robocopy to destination. It has made a lot of my efforts easy with one click execution. **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** The only issue I face in Jenkins is getting the slaves for my jobs. We are not sure it is Jenkins issue or the server issue at our side. But with my experience of using Jenkins i can say out of 10 we face 4 times slave issues and our Job get stuck because of it. **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins:** Use it as it is easy to learn. Lot of guidelines on the internet on how to use it, how to build a job and create a pipeline. it will make you work easier for build and deployment. **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** Earlier without Jenkins we were manually deploying to our servers and there were a lot of chances where we would miss one or the other thing in deployment. Now with Jenkins and with one click deployment our process has become easy and error free and less human errors and also saves deployment time. ### 8. Quite useful and flexible **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Juan F. | Senior software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 26, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** It's pretty easy to integrate most of the tools with Jenkins using official plug-ins. There's no task you cannot automate using this tool **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** The interface is not as user friendly as I'd like **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** Task automation and continuous deployment pipeline ### 9. Jenkins is super intuitive! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** You don't really need to do extra reading to understand how it works. Right clicking is all you need and the actions do exactly as they say! I like that i can access build warnings directly from here after I finish a build. **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** I dislike how slow it is and that we can only build two sites at once. And the fact that doing so makes it even slower. **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins:** Understand that it takes forever to build! **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to run automatic builds for the sites we currently support but on-demand builds for older sites. It helps to keep all our versions separate and updates ad needed. ### 10. Easiest to setup and most powerful CI/CD **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Charles C. | Director of Engineering, Internet, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** Easy to setup, yet its power is often unrealized by many with so many plugins available. can also have it trigger monitoring jobs, healthchecks, etc. **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** sometimes hard to setup multiple builders if doing it for the first time **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** CI/CD so when code is checked in (or on some other rules you setup) Jenkins can trigger a build and run automated tests. ### 11. Great tool for the the CICD **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2018 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** easy to use for the dev, qa and ops team **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** configuring page for the automated build is too busy and UI can be better **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins:** helps to automate the non-human part of SDLC and really helpful with the CI/CD model **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** we using this for the CICD model and for the automated QA regression runs ### 12. Jenkins - a self-contained open source automation server **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** There are many plugins that have been released for Jenkins which extend its use to projects written in languages other than Java. Which will help to integrate Jenkins with most version control systems and bug database. **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** Access control can be customized in better ways also the integration with git and CORS options can be made much better way. **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins:** Jenkins' security depends on two factors: access control and protection from external threats, One should ensure Protection from external threats and malicious builds. **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly used for build automation of apache server and the related post configurations ### 13. THE GOTO Tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 20, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** Pretty easy to set up and get going, very extensible and reliable. **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** User Interface is ugly and sometimes downright limiting. **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins:** If you are working in primarily Java, use Jenkins for sure. If you want an easy to use and widely supported devops server to start out with, use Jenkins for sure. If you want to easily coordinate running software on multiple systems, use Jenkins for sure. If you want highly transferrable skills, learn Jenkins. If you want a very friendly license, use Jenkins. If you enjoy tinkering, you'll enjoy Jenkins. This runs anywhere Java runs. Have a secondary testing install somewhere else, some plugins are old and bad and do not work with others. You need to test things before sending live against a shop already relying upon the Jenkins instance and you do not want to be that guy. Some nice, advanced features are just hard to learn. The Pipeline feature is an example of this. DO learn Groovy enough to accomplish useful things with Jenkins. Do expect Pipelines to be hard to learn well. **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** We do QA Automation and this we use for scheduling jobs and tests and getting results out ### 14. Best tool for continuous integration and development **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** user friendly and easily configurable and it is platform independent .No need to waste time on finding errors **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** There are some gaps related to space and network issues otherwise perfect **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins:** Best tool for automations and you would definitely love it once started working on it. **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automated lot of integration work and all the issues are identified and resolved in correct way and great support . ### 15. Best build automation tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pranathi V.N V. | Image Analyst Engineer, Biotechnology, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** Speed of builds. Integration with slack. Ability to set up nightly builds i.e different kind of triggers. Both plugin based and grovy/java based access to the build triggers. Easy to setup pardllelizable tasks **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** Interface is not as fancy, but it doesn't have to be. Documentation and support could improve by a lot **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building nightly, Continuously testing our developement much mire faster than circle. Ability to control builds inhouse machines ### 16. Easy to use, setup and configure **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anuradha W. | Software Engineer, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 09, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** With Jenkins Versions 2 and later, it has become really easy for us to setup and use Jenkins. There are plenty of plugins available which helps us automate most of the jobs we have as well. UI is simple and easy to learn. Jenkins is used to automate our daily build processes. **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** Even though the UI is simple, we'd like a little more graphics. Some plugins are not compatible with the latest version, and most plugins get abandoned after a while. **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins:** I would highly recommend Jenkins to anyone trying to automate certain manual processes. It has helped us solve a lot of issues we have had with our current manual build processes. Also it's visual representation of the status and current progress of builds help us in monitoring and troubleshooting tasks. It is also easy to setup and configure, and lets you get started within less than an hour. Some external plugins available are not compatible with the latest version and some are no longer supported, so I'd advise anyone using to be careful when using plugins, make sure you use plugins that will be supported on long term. We're excited to see what Jenkins blue ocean UI plugin has to offer us. For now it is still in beta version, and hopefully it will replace the current UI with a more modern look and feel. **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have a build process that uses CMD files and they're triggered within cmds itself, but with Jenkins, we can easily schedule these scripts as well as get a visual representation of the status and the progress of the build. ### 17. Capability to drive Enterprise CI with diversified tech stack **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashokekumar S . | Senior Quality Analyst, Telecommunications, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** Simplicity & ease of use. Great extension capabilities **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** Inbuilt reporting capability can be improved a lot **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins:** Jenkins a powerful tool with a lot of capabilities, we need to have a good knowledge on the system to effectively use it. Choice of right plugins and right CI architecture is key to success. In the past 3 years we have hardly come across any limitations in using the product. For most of your questions the answers are already available in the forum, this will ensure we don't reinvent the wheel often **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** Supporting divers technology base with the same ease. Usefull plugins and ability to seamlessly integrate with any system in the engineer life-cycle. A robust product to support large users and volume of CI activities, with a very small central support team ### 18. Great tool, great usability **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gian Giacomo E. | Customer Success Manager, Product Evangelist and Partnership Manager, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** Simplicity on configuration, it's very easy to deploy and startup. Slaves work well, with mutilple possibilities to be deployed almost everywhere. We simply integrated in the DEV environment with great productivity improvements from day 0. I personally did the first configuration and it was really easy for me that I am not an expert. **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** Some interfaces are pretty poor, on UX perspective, but still usable. I miss some unified documentation and stronger plugin documentation **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** Continuous integration and deployment in test / demo environments ### 19. I lub jenkins **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** Automating my workflows, from deploying code to having jenkins tasks that integrate with our health monitoring to fix outages. **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** Finding examples of different workflows for different business needs. I work for a small Marketing agency with an internal dev team. I don't think we're the average jenkins users. Most people i know using jenkins are working for larger companies or startups, primarily as a devops team. Learning new features sometimes seems unintuitive. **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins:** If you are debating between different CI/CD tools, look no further. You'll be sorely disappointed that you used a hosted version of other tools when you begin to realize how you can use Jenkins for non CI/CD tasks. Automation is the future and Jenkins is the forefront. **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** Continuos integration and deployment of our applications. Automated tasks to fix infrastructure or applications triggered by our monitoring and metrics platforms. The great part is how easily jenkins integrates with all of our different tools, bitbucket, nagios, slack, and others. We can build our code, deploy it, and automatically notify product owners and QA teams that the code has been deployed for a specific project. ### 20. easy to make build for deployment **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** its automated platform to make build for deployments in different environment and makes development very much faster **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** in the very beginning , it was very much complex for me to start working using this tool. There could be some more explainable document so that beginners can work efficiently on this tool. **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** automated build using this tool for deployment ### 21. Jenkins can handle your Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Publishing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** Ability to Integrate community plugins that expand the functionality of the software **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** Documentation of the latest pipeline strategy could be improved **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins:** Do not code yourself if there are plugins that can take care of the business problem your are trying to solve **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** It take care of our Continuous Deployment driving through the staging of compiling our code and running unit test, storing artifacts and deploying the servers themselves and the code. Then moving the artifacts through our pipeline all the way through production. ### 22. Seamless automation suite for creating builds **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** It's a great way for creating automatic builds, tracking git changes, creating installers, etc. It works very well. **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** It still relies on custom scripts to build specific branches. It could have more built in features **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** QA and builds ### 23. Control Automation Testing via Jenkins **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Sports | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** We use Jenkins to run our automated test suites via the click of a button. The user gets to choose: -What tags to run -How many VM's to run against, via the available pool -What stag/prod env to run against -What GitHub branch to run against This alleviates users having to do things via the command line, and for non-technical users that can sometimes be cumbersome. Along with the Jenkins plug-in for Cucumber Reports, it produces a nice pretty HTML report of the test run where you can look at passing/failing tests and drill down into any single test to analyze the log, etc. You can also add the Slack plug-in to get the HTML report sent out via slack (or email, etc.). **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** Jenkins, for the most part, is easy to configure, but some of the help pages for Jenkins do not give the best examples on how to set things up from scratch. Novice users may encounter a few challenges on setup. **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins:** Open source software, good stuff! **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running automated test suites via the click of a button. ### 24. Wonderful piece of software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** Jenkins is possibly the most versatile software when it comes to DevOps. Installation is a breeze and there are thousands of plugins that allow you to integrate Jenkins with pretty much anything under the sun. We were able to integrate Jenkins with our in house HP Performance Center, Qualilty Center/ALM and Selenium with equal ease. **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** Documentation can be a bit hazy. You are dependent on forums for more issues. **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins:** Anyone considering DevOps should consider Jenkins as their first stop! Being free, you are not going to lose anything trying it! **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automation! When it comes to automated / integrated testing tied to code checkins, Jenkins definitely beats the rest of the crowd ### 25. Jenkins works pretty well, when it works **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 27, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** I like the integration with slack, so it is clear and convenient to know when a build is ready. **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** I dislike that I have to refresh the screen on the jenkins page sometimes to see the progress on a build, it seems it should just move automatically. **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** Lots of different jobs are available for different environments, requiring less configuration per build. ### 26. Powerfull OpenSource CI Server **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Guiomar T. | Innovation and QA projects Manager , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 12, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** It is highly configurable, and it has many plugins that helps you to integrate it with many tools. It is possible to set jobs to automatise builds, tests, deploys... and many other processes within the different environments like development and production. **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** Some of the plugins are discontinued. The integration with docker-swarm is not set (or at least I have not seen how) There isn't a hosted Jenkins service, so it is necessary to own a machine (physical or virtual) to launch it. **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it to test component integration. Launch unitary tests and integration tests. Deploy components. ### 27. Good tool for CI/CD **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** The best part is the stability of the tool. Once you have set up your builds, the product works seamlessly. **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** It's quite complex to set up. Should be a simpler process. **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using it for CI/CD ### 28. Jenkins has many false starts issues. **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mark A P. | Senior Software Engineer - R&D for Symmetrix/CLARiiON Storage Products, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2016 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** Supports Java builds with maven and ant, bash shell scripting, remote login where Java agents execute. **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** Initiates false starts so you have write rules to handle these use cases. Heavy GUI Java implementation. No thin client support. Plug-ins don't always work with core version your using. May required to upgrade core, which corrupts your own written plug-ins installed. Linux LDAP/NIS support is lacking. Build restarting on false starts is not possible, without additional scripting. Plug-ins are weak in this functionality. **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins:** Jenkins is best used in single threaded CI **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** Replacement for Build Forge due to management thinks free is less costly after you have already purchased the licenses and then dropped all support. ### 29. good experience **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** user interface is very good, i also like login system **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** Nothing much, just if it provides better documentation it will be great **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins:** better documentaion **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** we used jenkins for automation ### 30. This is Perfect for CI and CD. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ankit k. | Technical Lead, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** I t feels like I do not have to do anything for integration or build. It is something we call as fire and forget. We have a code in bit bucket and configured the job in jenkins and now the whole code works just perfect. **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** A little tricky to understand the functionality , but you can learn it its worth. **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins:** Recommended **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** There is nothing which we were trying to solve but yes it eases up your other processes ### 31. Excellent and extensible build tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ethan C. | DevOps Engineer, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 27, 2016 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** An invaluable tool that ties in perfectly with GIT, local build repositories and makes it easy to visualize what's happening. You see a history of your builds, configure and control nodes to use for builds, its a great flexible tool. Another powerful use of jenkins is for kicking off fitness tests that test your app/site, which you can then tie to alerting when things break. **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** Some of the settings are buried within the UI, takes some time to get familiar with, but worth the investment. **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it for build automation, its great for kicking off builds via changes in SCM's ### 32. Like a good butler, Jenkins is there! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joe D. | Senior Software Engineer, Consumer Electronics, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** It runs the show! Let Jenkins do all the things for you. Easy to get running. Easy to get jobs going. Hook jobs to events, or make generic jobs that people can use when they desire. Then, stand by and watch the good reports come down the pipe. You can easily improve your development process with Jenkins. It is the gold standard. **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** Haven't really found anything that I dislike. It's so well used and supported that it's easy to find the help that you need. **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins:** Follow best practices. And just use it. It makes your life easier. You want and need to do continuous testing and building, so use the tool that is the best for that. **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** Continuous integration testing. Release testing. Sandbox testing. Anything and everything. ### 33. One of the best build automation software I have ever used **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** Jenkins is one of the best build automation tool I have ever used. - Open Source, can be easily extended as per the needs. - Hundreds of plugin available. - Extremely easy to configure. There are several useful plugins available for all the needs, i.e. code coverage, findbugs and many more useful plugins. The product is very much stable and provide a better experience, **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** There are not so many dislikes I have for Jenkins, however few things can still be improved: - UI can be improved, however one can always extend their code as per the need. - It becomes little slow when there are several jobs running simultaneously, however there are ways to optimize. **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins:** I would highly recommend Jenkins for the teams who wants to automate their manual process. The setup and configuration is easy and does not require too much of efforts. There are plenty of tutorials available for the same. We were able to solve lot of issues through Jenkins. It also provides you graphs and visual representation of the generate reports. We used Jenkins from build process to running the automation test cases. **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used Jenkins in our team to automate the build process and for continuous integration. ### 34. Jenkins the great CI tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Attila C. | Angular Developer (Remote Contract), Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2016 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** Wide range of language support Flexible continuous build pipelines Easy to define jobs with elastic hooks Can integrated with several SCM systems **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** The user interface design can be improved with responsive design and material sytle **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins:** Jenkins is easy to use with great support and easily can be configured via the simple UI interface. You can utilise for both back-end and front-end projects effectively. **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** Continuous deployment flows with nightly builds, instant build status feedback Auto deploy into QA environments easily, testing features before production state Auto build after each commit thanks to git hooks, so development team rapidly see test results and code quality reports Auto deployment to docker AWS instances ### 35. Great for build automation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** the ease of configuring the automation builds. Once Jenkins server is set up and the builds are configured, it is very straightforward for the development team to run the builds as and when required. The 'no login' required feature is also great. The auto scheduling works very well at all times. **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** Looking into the console output of any build requires more than 2 clicks. This is what I dislike the most when i compare features from the last tool we used to Jenkins **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins:** jenkins is very easy to use for a development team on a recurring basis. with no user logins required, it enables everyone to fix any build issues at any given time. The build grouping it offers is useful so as to ensure that all related builds belong together. The build configuration is very easy to understand and easy to update. The auto scheduling works great and the build server is never overloaded. **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have ensured that our SYS testing environments (6 in total) are up to date every morning with the latest changes that the developers checked in ### 36. Versatile automatation **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** I like the build pipeline where I can see status of all steps including several past iterations and execution time **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** The main dashboard where I see all the steps but they are not in any hierarchical or sequence order. **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have to build several applications and then deploy them to several servers and workstations. We use it as a means of having a continuous integration system. ### 37. CI solution for my current company **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** RubĂ©n S. | Senior software engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 10, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** It is highly configurable to build programs developed in different languages, and different build managers. Currently we are building more than 30 projects mainly in Java and Groovy languages. Also we are using it to automate the creation of forks for the projects. **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** If you have a lot of builds configured in the same server the builds can be too slow. Sometimes it is difficult to find where a build has failed, because you have to manually check the console output. **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Jenkins to build all the different projects as well as the CI solution. We run our unit and functional tests and make check style and sonar validations. ### 38. Easy Automation **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Defense & Space | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** Bitbucket integration is great. Easy automation of any build related task. **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** Outdated interface. It's hard to navigate without knowing where to look for things. Not sure what all I can click on that will lead me to a feature. **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** Regression testing. Building software. Using the build status of a pull request as an approver. ### 39. Jenkins review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 05, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** It is an awesome continuous integration tool which is used to deploy applications on server **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** I like all the features of Jenkins and dislike none **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** Application development ### 40. A neat little tool for tracking builds **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lisa M. | Production Specialist, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** It's an easy way to keep track of what builds are happening on the backend. It's also cool that we use Sherlock to test eligibility of our users. **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** There's not much else I use Jenkins for, so there's nothing I really dislike about it. **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's helped us with figuring out what eligibility issues our users might be running into. ### 41. Automate your builds and deployments with Jenkins **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** Jenkins is a powerful tool for all the deployment and building process, including access to remote machines and allowing you to do all kinds of schedule configuration or browse performance and historic stats. **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** Sometimes you can get lost trying to add certain remote orders and configuration. **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins:** Use the tests first to ensure everything is going to act like it's suposed to, don't do live deployments without having control of every possibilty. **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** Back from the Hudson times, we needed to control the builds and deployments from several machines joined in a server, we wanted to make sure at least one of them was always up during deployments and also let them restart back to a previous situation if something bad happened during the deployment. ### 42. Ok but the UI is pretty bad and the scheduling facility is awful. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John K. | Sr. S/W Test Engineer, Insurance, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2016 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** First off, I need to qualify my review by saying that I don't have much experience with other build tools and I'm a fairly novice Jenkins users. Jenkins has ALOT of in-built functionality, almost to a fault (see dislikes). **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** First off, we're on version 1.6 and the UI leaves alot to be desired. Also, the tool is not particularly user friendly and, as other reviewers have mentioned, some functions (like job configuration) are overly complicated and cumbersome. One of my biggest gripes is the lousy, antiquated job scheduling using CRON. Really? That's technology from the 1970s. In fact, the scheduling is so bad that I end up using the options to kick-off builds from the command line and then use Windows Task Manager. I guess the old adage applies: you get what you pay for and this open source tool is no exception. **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins:** Maybe some of the UI drawbacks have been fixed in the latest version. At the very least, make sure you try out the scheduling facility if that is important to you and make sure to look at the job configuration page. **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** We needed a tool to facilitate Continuous Integration. I wasn't involved in the tool selection process and somehow we ended-up with Jenkins. Personally, I would have kept looking for a tool with a richer, more user-friendly interface and a real scheduling facility. ### 43. MBA,PMP,Experienced Software Full Stack Developer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** yangbo z. | Full Stack Engineer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** Continues Integration and Continues Delivery. **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** Too many plugins,it is hard to maintain and to recovery from history if crash happened, and less of documentation about those sort of plugins. **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins:** Jenkins is not unique, but helpful and open source(free) **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** Multiply programming team-member, realized need a integration platform. ### 44. Perfect UI for Automation Frameworks **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jerry W. | Senior Director Product Engineering, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2016 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** We all know this project for it's superb CI/CD abilities and malleable scripting interfaces. I am sure many have found many other uses for Jenkins. Personally I have found it to be an incredibly quick to market, secure and performant user interface for launching automated tests. With fantastic plugins that provide instant traceability, login management and statistics, Jenkins provides a robust platform for wiring up the latest test frameworks. **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** There's not much to dislike about Jenkins. The open source community is very supportive. That can make upgrading and patching a little hectic. The look and feel is aging a bit. Race conditions are also difficult to manage from one OS to another. **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins:** There are some great CI/CD products out there but if you're looking to get up and running quickly with the latest standards and great community support, why would you not use Jenkins? **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automation Framework UI and Internal Tools Launchpad. The benefits have been ease of use, good traceability, and instant credibility with the developer community. ### 45. Easy enough to get going without running into too many problems, not flexible enough for all situati **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Teresa K. | Senior Configuration Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2016 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** It is very easy to get it installed and start testing various build options. I like being able to use slave instances...gives you the opportunity to build a robust build farm. I like how easy it is to send build information to interested parties. **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** Even though there are hundreds of plug-ins, it still surprises me how often I have to write something that will fit a unique situation. It uses up a ton of memory, and after a few CI runs, more and more. Some Jenkins releases are better than others, so if one is not too bad, I'm very reluctant to upgrade to a new one. I don't like that I can't narrow down CI builds to each individual change. That's a pain. **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins:** It is worth the cost. : ) Truly, though, it is worth the cost of the time to set up and test to see if it meets your needs. **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** Needed to get builds running fast. Installing on Windows is very easy; installing on Linux is pretty easy. It's easy to hook up with existing CI tools by using slave instances. It's great to do build automation because it lets me create builds in my sleep. Continuous integration saves a lot of time and resources because it lets us know if there is a problem with the build right away, rather than having to wait for the automated (nightly) build or, egad, when QA gets it. ### 46. Nice tool for CI **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2017 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** Easy to configure, lot of plugins to implement **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** Some regular expresion to schedule tasks **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins:** Use lastest version. If you want continual inspection with SONAR, check correct plugins versions. **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** None at moment ### 47. The best value you'll get for a CI software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Filipe O. | Senior Software Architect, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2016 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** Jenkins is very extensible with a lot of ready to use plugins. Although it takes some time to get along with it, you'll not regret because it's free. It really worths the try. **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** The user interface is ugly and confusing (though you can lower the frustration by adding themes). Really. Jenkins UI and UX are no match for any of its competitors. It takes a lot of time to get along with it. **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins:** Don't do it in your environment at the first time. Don't try to setup your behemoth project at the first time. Don't install a lot of plugins right away. Start small so you can learn it properly. **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** I've implemented Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment for my early stage startup. In such stage we need to save the best we can, and Jenkins really worths the cost of learning so we can work the agile way from day one. ### 48. Good CI tool, lots of plugins for enhancement **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tonya E. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2016 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** Jenkins is pretty easy and straightforward to install and get setup. There are also lots of plugins that you can use to enhance your experience. I've used the git, gitlab and svn plugins. I also like that the interface is simple and easy to navigate. I also like the email notifications. **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** Overall, I don't have any major complaints. For multi-module or larger projects, sometimes the build can get out of order. Maybe this is due to human error - but one build kicks off another ...one fails .. but then you have to wait for other builds to catch up before you have a successful build. **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** You have multiple developers committing code and you need to continuously integrate that code and determine if there are any bugs or errors in the build. It is better to catch these problems sooner than later. ### 49. Jenkins - An open Source awesome tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** RISHANT A. | Software Engineer & Technical Lead, Telecommunications, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2016 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** 1. Its web -based UI makes it platform independent. you can access it from anywhere . FRom your phone , laptop , just anything . It is usually a big problem with many softwares. 2. It comes with a wide variety of plugins . there are plugins to do anything and everything. For any need of yours just download a required plugin and you are good to go. No need to fiddle with code for doing trivial things . It saves lot of your development time . 3. It comes with a lot of security features. Making user management very easy. It has all different kinds of options for user management and Access Control . Very nicely made , this is a very good piece of software . 4. It has a very large community which supports it . **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** I dont like its UI that much . There is a need to improve it . Although , it serves the purpose very well . **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins:** GO for it !! Its amazing . **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** I run a company which requires a large number of softwares to run and those softwares keep on updating frequently. It a pain to do their deployment manually every time. Also , there are chances of human error to happen . So, I use Jenkins here. I have automated the whole process and now it all happens automatically every time code is pushed to the repo. It also generates reports for itself. ### 50. Powerful and flexible **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Judy (Morgan) L. | Software Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2016 **What do you like best about Jenkins?** The best is the worst, it is completely configurable and can do whatever you tell it to, if you can figure out how! There's a plug-in for everything. **What do you dislike about Jenkins?** Sometimes the documentation for various plug-ins are a bit brief and it can take some trial and error to get them to work. **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins:** You really need someone with time to learn how to use all of the powerful features and to make sure things keep running smoothly. You will spend a lot of time up front getting things going, but the payoff can be huge. **What problems is Jenkins solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're doing continuous integration and automated test. 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