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Users appreciate the automation capabilities of Bamboo, allowing seamless integration and efficient task management across projects. (1 mentions)

Users benefit from automation efficiency in Bamboo, streamlining processes and enhancing project workflows seamlessly. (1 mentions)

Users value the automation scripts in Bamboo, enabling efficient task management and streamlining deployment processes. (1 mentions)

Users value the efficient build automation capabilities of Bamboo, enhancing deployment and integration across projects. (1 mentions)

Users appreciate the seamless CD integration in Bamboo, enhancing their deployment efficiency and overall workflow. (1 mentions)

Users express frustration with access restrictions since tasks must run solely on the Bamboo server, limiting flexibility. (1 mentions)

Users highlight the resource limitations of Bamboo, as tasks must run on the server and can't utilize remote agents. (1 mentions)

Top Pros or Advantages of Bamboo

1. Automation

Users appreciate the automation capabilities of Bamboo, allowing seamless integration and efficient task management across projects.

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Vishal K.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4.0/5

"Bamboo for CI/CD"

What do you like about Bamboo?

1. works best with jira, bitbucket, confluence etc, which helps in tracking all the jira issue in a build ,can navigate to bitbucket to see exact com

2. Automation Efficiency

Users benefit from automation efficiency in Bamboo, streamlining processes and enhancing project workflows seamlessly.

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Vishal K.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4.0/5

"Bamboo for CI/CD"

What do you like about Bamboo?

1. works best with jira, bitbucket, confluence etc, which helps in tracking all the jira issue in a build ,can navigate to bitbucket to see exact com

3. Automation Scripts

Users value the automation scripts in Bamboo, enabling efficient task management and streamlining deployment processes.

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Vishal K.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4.0/5

"Bamboo for CI/CD"

What do you like about Bamboo?

1. works best with jira, bitbucket, confluence etc, which helps in tracking all the jira issue in a build ,can navigate to bitbucket to see exact com

4. Build Automation

Users value the efficient build automation capabilities of Bamboo, enhancing deployment and integration across projects.

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Vishal K.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4.0/5

"Bamboo for CI/CD"

What do you like about Bamboo?

1. works best with jira, bitbucket, confluence etc, which helps in tracking all the jira issue in a build ,can navigate to bitbucket to see exact com

5. CD Integration

Users appreciate the seamless CD integration in Bamboo, enhancing their deployment efficiency and overall workflow.

See 1 mentions

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Vishal K.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4.0/5

"Bamboo for CI/CD"

What do you like about Bamboo?

1. works best with jira, bitbucket, confluence etc, which helps in tracking all the jira issue in a build ,can navigate to bitbucket to see exact com

Top Cons or Disadvantages of Bamboo

1. Access Restrictions

Users express frustration with access restrictions since tasks must run solely on the Bamboo server, limiting flexibility.

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Vishal K.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4.0/5

"Bamboo for CI/CD"

What do you dislike about Bamboo?

It is server only due to which task are executed on bamboo server itself and not allowed to run on remote agents

2. Resource Limitations

Users highlight the resource limitations of Bamboo, as tasks must run on the server and can't utilize remote agents.

See 1 mentions

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Vishal K.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4.0/5

"Bamboo for CI/CD"

What do you dislike about Bamboo?

It is server only due to which task are executed on bamboo server itself and not allowed to run on remote agents

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Dhaval P.

Software Developer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/19/2019

"Bamboo making revolution in build automation."

4/5

What do you like best about Bamboo?

Bamboo can be used for the build automation. The best things about bamboo are listed below:

- Bamboo provides the feature of continuous deployment and continuous integration.

- Bamboo provides the best configuration management facility.

- In bamboo one can easily disable and enable the branch.

- In bamboo one can easily configure the build details and time to run that branch.

- The user interface of the bamboo is very simple.

- In bamboo the automation test case easily be run.

- The error logs of the bamboo are very descriptive so one can easily find out the mistake.

- Bamboo saves the lot of the time as it deploys the build automatically.

- The Bamboo integration with the bitbucket is excellent. All the changes are pulled and build is generated from it.

- Whenever you think that you are lost, you can ask your question to the bamboo support team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bamboo?

I don't have any complain regarding the bamboo current features. The bamboo consumes the lot of memory so it hangs and misbehave sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Bamboo:

Bamboo provides so much functionality, it can be used by any individual or company for moving towards automation. It is worth a try! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Bamboo solving and how is that benefiting you?

Using bamboo the company can easily achieve the continuous integration and continuous deployment. The company can easily save the manual effort and time in generating the build. The bamboo also runs the test case so it becomes easier for the automation engineer to run the test case in bamboo. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Paul A.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/5/2019

"The Long Term Model Of Planning And Integration Of Project Components."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Bamboo?

Continuous integration is very useful. The product is very user-friendly, with a lot of accessible custom flow, release management and code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bamboo?

It is possible to use only the reports in the software. According to the specific projects, users can create their own. Bugs can also be added to tracking function. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Bamboo:

Use this for simplified works. The long-term solution for process planning and implementation with the incremental approach will be this material. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Bamboo solving and how is that benefiting you?

Bamboo has helped to simplify the overall development, preparation and implementation lifecycle activities. There is also much online support with a large user community, making it very user friendly. Helps monitor progress in the life cycle of applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/7/2020

"Bamboo review"

2.5/5

What do you like best about Bamboo?

Has all of my details such as vacation and sick days remaining and what I have used.

Lets me see which team members are working or taking off. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bamboo?

Very clunking and not very userfriendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ferhat S.

R&D Lead

Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/27/2019

"Very very good."

5/5

What do you like best about Bamboo?

It works. Out of the box. Well, you have to migrate to a proper database (the default installation uses an embedded H2/HSQL), but even that is not a hussle. There's a log analyzer that reports on the health of the server. Automatic backups on your schedule. The distinction between build and deployment projects and artifact sharing. Support for multiple deployment environments and tracking the deployed versions/builds for each environment. Agent infrastructure, so you can have build agents on different platforms. Great maven integration. Plenty of add-ons for integrating with peripheral tools such as SonarQube, Artifactory, npm etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bamboo?

Not much. Not zero, zilch, zip, nada, nothing, nil or null, but so little it does not directly come to mind. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Bamboo:

1. Nice set of features for Maven and npm builds.

2. Plenty of add-ons on the Atlassian market-place, most free.

3. Administration is straight-forward.

4. Build and failed build RSS feeds can be consumed by monitoring software.

5. Buy agent licenses if you need to build for multiple platforms (e.g., if your main platform is Linux and Java and you have installed Bamboo on Linux, to build .NET projects you'll need an agent on a Windows server, to build IOS apps you'll need an agent on a Mac) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Bamboo solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have Java and Node.JS code to Kubernetes deployment pipelines in place for multiple projects and use Bamboo for continuous integration and delivery. The pipelines involve package publishing on Maven or npm and SonarQube analysis. We use Atlassian BitBucket (git repo, formerly Atlassian Stash) for source code control and they fit like a hand and a glove.

The mobile team also runs their builds on Bamboo, we have a dedicated Mac Bamboo agent for iPhone builds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jayash J.

Senior Member Technical

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/10/2019

"Great integration and deployment tool"

4/5

What do you like best about Bamboo?

Atlassian Bamboo is great and very easy in configuring the integration and deployment plans.

Atlassian provides all the features documented over the cloud.

It is finely integrated with other atlassian products like HipChat, Confluence, Bitbucket, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bamboo?

memory management seems poorly implemented, since it piles up the heap space frequently.

Sometimes it hangs and goes out of memory as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Varun C.

JIRA/Confluence Administrator at UST-Global for McKesson

Computer Networking

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/26/2017

"Bamboo within our organization is used as a continuous integration and delivery tool"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Bamboo?

Bamboo is made by Atlassian.

Bamboo is made by Atlassian, the company that also made and maintains tools such as JIRA, Stash, and BitBucket, so it's a given that they would integrate quite nicely.

Bamboo allows you to automatically detect and build new branches, merge branches together when tests pass, and continuously deploy code to staging and production servers based on branch name. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bamboo?

We only have one instance integrating with JIRA Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Bamboo:

Bamboo is a continuous integration (CI) server that can be used to automate the release management for a software application.

It offers a powerful tool for automating software development

Automatically detect, build, test, and merge branches to deploy code continuously to production or staging servers based on the branch name Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Bamboo solving and how is that benefiting you?

Automated build and deployment

Continuous integration server Bamboo accelerates development of high quality software by exposing code problems immediately

Bamboo is the only build server to offer first-class support for the "delivery" aspect of continuous delivery Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fahad H.

Soiftware Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/12/2018

"Efficient and Versatile"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Bamboo?

- Can automate a wide variety of builds

- Easy to setup in aws

- Easily integrates with our on-prem servers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bamboo?

- Can be slow at times with how it integrates with our ldap service

- Restarts itself randomly at imes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/24/2019

"Easiest tool for automated deployment"

4/5

What do you like best about Bamboo?

The customization of when to deploy, and the ability to add steps to your deployment plan Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bamboo?

Error logging is mostly dependant on user input and logging statements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Valentina D.

Logistics Coordinator

Financial Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/14/2018

"BAMBOO REVIEW "

5/5

What do you like best about Bamboo?

YOU CAN TRACK YOUR HOURS WORKED AND ASK FOR VACATION DAYS. ITS ALL CALCULATED! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bamboo?

NOTHING. I REALLY LIKE THE PROGRAM. IT DOES THE WORK AND IS EASY TO USE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/3/2018

"End to end solution for release management"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Bamboo?

It's super easy once everything is set by your administrator. You can be sure of the continuous delivery of your builds irrespective of the size of your team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Bamboo?

Initial setup can be a hassle but that depends a lot on skill of your administrator. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.