# CloudBees Reviews **Vendor:** CloudBees **Category:** [Continuous Integration Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/continuous-integration) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 621 ## About CloudBees The Complete DevOps solution. CloudBees empowers your software delivery teams to transform your business. CloudBees solution brings together development, operations, IT, security, and business teams to: Create fast with scalable repeatable workflows. Continuously improve customer experiences by progressively delivering features with speed and control. Command everything with higher-order visibility, management, and intelligence across tools, teams, pipelines, and process... all at enterprise scale. ## CloudBees Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **centralized management and robust security** features of CloudBees for seamless CI/CD processes. (5 reviews) - Users value CloudBees for its **reliability** , particularly in standardizing CI/CD processes with robust security and centralized management. (5 reviews) - Users value the **customization capabilities** of CloudBees, enabling tailored solutions for various DevOps needs. (4 reviews) - Users find **CloudBees easy to use** , enabling seamless integration and efficient continuous delivery for teams. (4 reviews) - Users appreciate the **seamless integrations** of CloudBees with major DevOps tools, enhancing workflow automation and efficiency. (4 reviews) - Release Management (4 reviews) - Users benefit from **powerful automation** in CloudBees, enhancing efficiency and speeding up delivery processes significantly. (3 reviews) - Users value the **automation efficiency** of CloudBees, significantly speeding up their development and delivery processes. (3 reviews) - CD Integration (3 reviews) - Collaboration (3 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **complex interface** of CloudBees challenging, making understanding and configuration difficult. (2 reviews) - Users find **CloudBees complex** to understand and configure, requiring specialized expertise and time for setup. (2 reviews) - Users find the **complex setup** of CloudBees challenging, requiring significant time and expertise for proper configuration. (2 reviews) - Users often struggle with the **complex user interface** , finding it challenging to understand and configure properly. (2 reviews) - Users experience **complex configuration issues** with CloudBees, requiring time and specialized expertise for effective setup. (2 reviews) - Difficult Configuration (2 reviews) - Complex Configuration (1 reviews) - Confusing Interface (1 reviews) - Difficult Navigation (1 reviews) - Difficult Setup (1 reviews) ## CloudBees Reviews ### 1. Simple, lightweight, effective **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nick K. | Lead React Native Mobile Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** So far, my team and I have zero complaints about Rollout. The SDK was simple to install and it "just works" with minimal effort (speaking as a developer). In a few hours, I was able to set it up and start setting up A/B testing in our staging environment from specs provided by our product team. Can't ask for much more than that! **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** To be honest, in a few months of using Rollout, I haven't run into any downsides to using it. There were no issues in the setup process, and the few minor questions I did have were answered promptly by the support team, even during the initial trial period. **Recommendations to others considering CloudBees:** In my opinion, it's lightweight and as extendible as one desires. Its tagging system has given my team the flexibility it needs to implement everything we've been expected to build so far, and I can't currently think of a scenario in which it will be deficient in any way for our needs. **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're conducting A/B testing of new features and tweaks to existing features to improve our UX. So far, we've gathered measurable data which has helped in guiding my team in drafting new features based on the increased understanding of our user base. ### 2. Benefits for the non-expert Jenkins user, but not necessarily the advanced user **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris C. | Lead CI/CD Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2019 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** Access to experts when it comes to Jenkins Core product. Read that carefully - the core product. Most plugins are open source and often change without warning. While Cloudbees will give you a best effort, they have not been able to show me added value in diagnosing issues in their Core product. The support team has gone above and beyond to help me with issues that are not directly related to their Core product when I am in need -- one day to go as far as helping to diagnose a networking issue with internal routes in EKS so that we could successfully install the product. **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** Using YAML to configure and set up Jenkins instances is ugly and error-prone -- this should be remedied soon by a helm chart. When we bring problems to the Support Team, they really don't help us to solve the issue -- in fact, we were told once to do it another way instead. Trying to evaluate Electric Cloud was a very discouraging experience -- we were never allowed to actually use the software, only to have it made up and delivered to us, which doesn't help our evaluation of the tool. **Recommendations to others considering CloudBees:** If you want to host Jenkins and don't have in-house expertise, you could benefit from this option. Otherwise, it is just as easy to set up Jenkins Open Source. **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** The best part of using Cloudbees Core is that I can manage multiple Jenkins instances without having to manage each node individually. Backups are also easy, though restores are still a very manual process. ### 3. Cloudbees CI has good plugin support and configurability. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** Most 3rd party tools are supported usually via a plugin. Documentation on cloudbees is really good. **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** It's sometimes hard to diagnose build failures. We see often see networking problems when agent disconnections. It's hard to manage large number of plugin versions. **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's good for creating automation and building source code and pushing to repositories. ### 4. CI for better integration **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bhanu A. | Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** We build CI CD pipeline which made our life easier. Dev, Test, and Operations team seamlessly performing activities **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** I cannot say any which I disliked. I like it **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** seamless operations, build and deploy is very easy ### 5. My experience with Rollout in production **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Peleg B. | Engineering Manager, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2019 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** This is now my second project I'm using Rollout in (we had three projrct in our devision). Due to the sucess we had with it in the past, we decided to continuw with this solution for our next projects. Rollout provides the ability to easily control our features exposure when going to production. The system is relatively easy to use, offers great flexibility with different parameters. We have used it control expose by device, platform, version and more. The Rollout team also provides great support for questions or issues. **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** There are no real downside for using Rollout. They offer an SDK for most platforms and allow quick on-boarding. Adding target groups after project is out there requires code changes to expose more parameters to create those groups on. **Recommendations to others considering CloudBees:** I'm not par of the finence and contract part of the team, but I know that this is a very important part of making the descision. Try out the system first to understant it and make sure it answers all of your needs. Understand the limitation and benefits that you get from using this system. Make sure it fits your platform. We had limitaion that required Rollout to change/improve their product along the way to support us - platform wise and project wise. **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** Gradual exposure of new feature, by platform, version, location, device model and more.Easy to use web dashboard. Increasing/decreasing our exposure is done very easily and fast now. ### 6. Setup cloudbees CI on Openshift cluster **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Piyush k. | Cloud Operations Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** I have deployed Cloudbees CI on openshift and it provides lots of facility to create your own managed master and manage them in operation center.This is very user friendly with enrich capability of CI-CD **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** i am not sure for dislike at this moment **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solves the CI/CD implementation of application development process. ### 7. Journey to CI/CD with CloudBees **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vikas A. | Director, Digital Platform, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** CI/CD as code. We can version all of our Jenkins jobs and treat it as we would any of our other code. **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** Delays in getting the plugins that are available in OpenSource Jenkins. I believe that is the compromise you have to make to guarantee stability and reliability. **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** Enabling build and deployment automation across the organization. We started with basic application builds to the point now that we have - - Containers built using the pipeline - Security testing done in the pipeline - Working on getting Release Management baked in the solution ### 8. Seamless Experience in Building our APIs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** The extended plugins make the Integration as seamless as possible. The support for custom plugins help integrate in-house developed solutions. **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** Sometimes, the dependency management lags. E.g Github, sonatype, nexus, AWS S3, all integrations causes a delay **Recommendations to others considering CloudBees:** Just an overall brilliant solution for your CI CD needs **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** One Click Integration. We almost tried to achieve that with CI. We have integrated various tools using the plugins from Cloudbees. ### 9. Cloubees Core - An excellent alternative **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** RBAC - Role Based Access Control and Automatic security patch upgrade is something that beings unique value to this product. Historically setting up RBAC in opensource Jenkins distribution and managing access to slaves has been challenging and often time wont work. This is nicely wrapped in CB Core. **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** The product is focused based on containers in mind where as people still use classic EC2 or trying to go serverless is not well documented. If the product was agnostic to underlaying platform and EKS, Kube, EC2-ASG deployment could be handled through diff plugin configuration, it would make it unbeatable. **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving problem of restricting who has authority to invoke job on certain restricted slaves. This is very important as I work on cybersecurity org. ### 10. Very usable service **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** Simple configuration, and lots of analytics **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** CloudBees is a very expensive service and there are other service more cheaper **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use feature flag on any feature developed by client or backend ### 11. Adequate build system, a bit hard to maintain and provision. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eugene B. | DevOps Engineer, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2019 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** Custom CloudBees plugin like HA mode and secrets. **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** Setup and administration is complicated 18 years old legacy code is still there, k8s integration is hard. **Recommendations to others considering CloudBees:** Keep the good work. **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** CI\CD with a transition to k8s managed services. ### 12. Cloudbees CI review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** We are using the open-source. docker image for Cloudbee's Jenkins distribution, and like the regular updates, testing and all work going into such an offering. **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** As we need to maintain a multi-master setup, it would be great to include features for that in the open-source version as well. **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are building all our software with it. Jenkins pipelines and pipeline libraries are a great way to uniformly build our python packages and services. ### 13. Wonderful tool to work in CI **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** The user experience and the customer support was excellent **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** There is nothing which i didn't like. All good **Recommendations to others considering CloudBees:** None so far **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helped in automation of builds and quick feedback ### 14. CloudBees Flow (Electric Cloud Flow) best Release Automation tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hamid E. | DevOps Automation Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2019 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** CloudBees Flow is the best Release Automation tool that exist in the market. From the best features is the possibility to define Environment for an application and next define a pipeline to promote artifacts. The next thing is you can define your workflow as code using a specific DSL. **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** The UI is a little complexe and hard to decipher from the first usage, also defining the pipeline and the workflow can be a tedious task from the UI. This from my own usage experience, because I use it for evaluation propose only. **Recommendations to others considering CloudBees:** best release automation and management tool **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Build Promotion, possibility to promote a build to production if tests are successful in staging. - Gather analytics and data about the release process. - Integration with many other deployments tools like Ansible ### 15. A good tool for controlling app features from outside **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tan B. | Software Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2019 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** My PO can now disable/enable features when running the app in different environments or doing AB testing, without changing the source code. Fast and useful support. **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** Marketing team: this was planned for Marketing team to test some experimental features. But they seem to be lazy/busy or afraid of touching technical aspects so they didn't use it. Dev team: just create their own feature flag variables in the code base, lazy to learn/use rollout for both frontend side and backend side. Testing: need to be more careful to write unit tests, they shouldn't rely on Rollout feature flags. **Recommendations to others considering CloudBees:** * Check Rollout documentation carefully to make sure feature flags are synced correctly. * Unit test shouldn't be affected by Rollout feature flags. **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** Rollout makes it easier to manage feature flags in one place. ### 16. Great tool for develpers and company as a whole **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Electronics | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2019 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** Ease of use and easy to deploy and get started right away. Integration with docker EE. Status and health checks with automatic upgrades and the support team is great. **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** share agents are not recommended across Geo-location. It would be good to overcome the network issue somehow. **Recommendations to others considering CloudBees:** Yes, its a great tool. **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** Build time and overall management of build environment. Improve process and flow and build time across teams in different locations. ### 17. Cloudbees Core increases the experience of Jenkins at scale, ease of use and flexible administration **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** Extensibility though its plugin ecosystem and advantages with its modern cloud approach. **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** Administrative overhead in managing plugins separately for Operation Center, Managed masters, Jenkins Enterprise and Open Source versions of platform **Recommendations to others considering CloudBees:** Excellent CI/CD solution to implement as part of Enterprise DevOps Platform/Solutions **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** Continuous Integration and Delivery for application developments. Rich and wide plugins ecosystem for major workflow integrations, Flexibility in managing CI/CD solution at scale, ease of administration and increased collaboration. ### 18. Its the supported industry standard **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** Besides cloudbee support there's tons of support on SO and others **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** The wide variety of plugins and rate of change can mean there's out of date documentation or plugins that aren't that great **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** Platform that can support any type of workload you can come up with ### 19. Good plataform with supportive team **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Leonardo B. | Partner, Front-End Chapter Leader and Computer Vision Advisor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** One of the best things of Rollout is the support team, they are always trying to help. We have a lot of different applications for the Flags and Configurations, and we can in real-time change the settings for our clients and for our developers. **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** We had some issues with the Rox SDK, but everything went back to normal after updating it to the last version. There are some UX and UI problems with the plataform, its not a big deal, but it could be much better. **Recommendations to others considering CloudBees:** If you are looking to improve the quality of your software through A/B Testing and Slow-releasing, this is the app to go with. **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** Testing A/B, Slow-Releasing Features and Changing endpoints with configurations based on metadata. ### 20. Best in ALL - CloudBees **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** Ease to use CloudBees, all features are simple and easy to use. **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** Look and Feel of CloudBees is not that good and need to be worked. **Recommendations to others considering CloudBees:** Please try to work on look and feel.. **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automating the repeated work in operations as much possible. ### 21. Cloud bee has Mature CI Product **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** I liked complete workflow design capabilities. Has a very good UI , covers almost all features **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** Even though product has very rich features configuring them is bit Complex **Recommendations to others considering CloudBees:** CloudBees products are very good with great features which makes build and deployment easy **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has integration to electric cloud which makes project management and release management Very easy ### 22. Senior Devops Engineer. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** Prompt support. Stable tool. Frequent updates **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** Little difficult to manage , learn for new **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** Stable enterprise environment. ### 23. Easy and Reliable CI tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** Its easy to manage kubernates pods and Docker deployment using this.Improves overall build automation process and validation easy . Support from cloudbees team is really good. It is a cloud native solution for CI. **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** They need to upgrade application's User Interface **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are trying to solve CI problems using cloud-bees. Its easy to used and provides multiple integration points ### 24. A nice way of doing feature flags **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Willian M. | Senior Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** I like the interface and how easy it is to control the flags we add to our system. They have SDKs to make it easy to add it to your codebase. **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** The cost was a bit high for our case, but in the end we could get a deal that was favorable for both sides. It is a bit confusing to be able to change things via configuration and UI. **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using it to add feature flags to many of our features. By doing that, we are improving the quality of our deliveries, since we're able to test with groups of users before releasing. It's also nice to do A/B testing if needed. ### 25. Good feature flag management for teams **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2019 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** I think the interface that rollout provides, the level of management you can give users, as well as additional features like configs. **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** When copying over flags to different environments, you can only do it one by one. It would be nice to have a "copy to all envs" button or where you can select which envs you want the flag to be copied over to. It would also be nice if rollout could generate a report with project filters of what flags are enabled or not enabled. **Recommendations to others considering CloudBees:** It's a great tool for feature flags and to give access to multiple teams without coding experience. For PMs and non technical people, it is a nice interface and easy to use and edit. It isn't the easiest for pulling reports to give an entire summary of flags in all environments. It seems like more of a manual process to create the same flag in all the environments. **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** Feature flag management that doesn't require a new deployment to push out a feature or rollback a feature. This is great for testing in different environments, as well as if something bad were to happen, you can easily rollout back to the previous version. ### 26. Reliable Jenkins environments for Enterprise deployment **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 26, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** customer support is very useful. They are apt and to the point **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** No Hosted solutions being offered. Need more robust plugin support. Sometimes we get issues on plugins but hear from Cloudbees support that its a level 3 supported plugin and cant do anything. **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** Dev and TEst deployments with docker integrations ### 27. Great potential, learning curve a bit too high (counter productive)... **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pablo V. | CEO - Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2019 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** It's a simple way to activate or deactivate features, useful for massive deployments. It works for several major languages and the learning curve is acceptable. The web UI and UX are responsive and provide a good experience. **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** Sometimes it feels like your teams can program these features themselves, without relying on external services like this. Additionally, it requires some learning. This might involve a loss of money in some cases. Sometimes the support is not as fast as one requires, something important especially for this kind of service. Chat responses aren't good enough yet. **Recommendations to others considering CloudBees:** It's headed in the right direction, if they fix the key and most basic flaws I've found so far I believe this is might become a standard when doing consulting work for my clients (by recommending it) or for my own apps. The inclusion of Python (a must-have these days) is something I consider important and extremely useful if they help my dev teams, to be more organized and productive. The price might be a bit too high for someone who is just starting, there's certainly room for improvement there, but it's nothing for a mid/major company or corporation. In other words, give it a try. Read the documentation and see how you can take advantage of it. **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** One thing that's useful is that everything is well organized, appropriate "packages" for each different language/platform. One example is "Install-Package rox-server", which is quite simple. The flag system is well structured, and it might save you time and "force" your development team to organize your projects better. ### 28. Exactly what a development team needs, does one thing and does it very well. simple **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Public Safety | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2019 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** How we can create configuration on the fly with new feature flags written in the code. Also hopefully soon bitbucket configuration in the repo configuration storage. **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** Not having a sold feature (the backup of the flags to source repository) and having to wait for it. **Recommendations to others considering CloudBees:** Rollout will help your team be able to release code while keeping it out of mainstream until you want it, so very very easy to use. I liked being able to have developers write the feature flag in the code and have it go live then. Also the toggle overlay that you can use to override the flags for QA is amazing. I also like the smart features where you can single the flags to a single user or use a regex. The browser data is also abstracted away from the user so the flag settings are more secure. **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** continuous delivery and hiding of not done features using the feature flags. ### 29. Rollout, the feature flag as a service done great **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nicolas D. | Backend Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2019 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** Easy to use and interface friendly. Everyone (from developer to project manager) can use it easily. The sync with a Github Repository is great for audit and platform as code. **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** Some concepts can be sometimes hard to understand (like configuration, the sync of flags, ...). There are multiple ways to init a project with flags, so it can be little bit trivial sometimes. **Recommendations to others considering CloudBees:** Give Rollout a try with their free trial. **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Rollout for mainly 2 usecases: first is darklaunches, that allows us to ship features and hide them from client. The second is feature behind a paywall, that allows us to present features according to user plan. ### 30. Without Cloudbees Rollout's Kill-switch you're playing Russian Roulette with a Glock **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sean M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 02, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** The ability to immediately un-break our CI/CD deployment pipeline with Cloudbee's kill-switch feature **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** The whole CI/CD concept was initially hard for our team to learn and understand what it was that we were actually doing and who we were doing it to. We come from the traditional "deadline push" made of 5am Redbull runs. **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving the inevitable mistakes that get missed even though they've made it through code review, canary clients, every unit test we can think to throw at them and into the production environment. Roll backs without suicide ### 31. How to make life easier with CoudsBees Feature Flags **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Evgeny Z. | iOS developper, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** Easy install, good documentation, excellent support level. Very fast integration in the existing process. **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** The total price for the small company was a bit hight for us. **Recommendations to others considering CloudBees:** Demo should be easy to get without requesting and creating accounts. **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** The manging deployment process for our application. ios/android and backend. ### 32. Cloudbees Jenkins - Just another tool ?? **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** Seamless integration with other tools and technologies **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** no native kubernetes deployment strategy **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** we build our CI pipelines using Cloubees Jenkins. Both groovy pipelines as well as freestyle ### 33. Changing the “way we’ve always done it.” **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 28, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** On demand build and deploy triggers instead of waiting for a release window. **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** Nothing, we love every feature of the product **Recommendations to others considering CloudBees:** If you administer a large open source jenkins cluster or a bunch of masters, get CloudBees! **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allowing teams to release fixes and features faster through automation ### 34. It has been good but experience but not great **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** If in case we get stuck with the issues, the support is good. **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** Want to see more integrating capabilities for signing in with Microsoft AD and other vendors. **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Cloud bees Jenkins to do our CI/CD in the automated fashion. ### 35. Currently using cloudbees in our company for numerous CI stuff and its working great **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** The easy scalability and usage. We are deploying around 10-20microservices using it **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** currently none. Till now we haven't faced any issue in it. **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are creating docker images and sonarqube cronjobs using Cloudbees which is increasing our code quality and work ### 36. This stacks up against the other CI tools pretty well **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** Nice, easy to use interface. Multiple master deployment pipelines. Can be a little tricky to navigate at first. **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** Was a little slow for adoption. Difficult to discern from main Cloudbees and Jenkins tools. **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** Continuous integration and continuous delivery for k8s and main virtual machines. ### 37. Good product to automate everything **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** Lots of plugin and open source version too **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** Interface is outdated and slow sometimes **Recommendations to others considering CloudBees:** Make sure to not just add plugins you need to understand what you are doing first **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** We automated all our build and releases globally ### 38. Complete CI **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** design is good and documentation is good **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** sometime need to look for scripts on google **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** isolation of releases and branching ### 39. Good product with ease of use, great support and Plugin collection **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** Ease of deployment of Jenkins , like other product available in marked cloudbee provide very easy to use platfrom Variety of plugins and ease of use great support and extra mile they go to help on problem **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** Earlier their were issues with support but now they have greatly improved, UI can be more responsive Migration tools to move to cloud bee **Recommendations to others considering CloudBees:** Go for it **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** CI CD pipeline, automation of the environment with benefits of seed jobs Used by different teams ### 40. Adapts to the needs of the area of operations in a simple way. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Armando O. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** The centralized control that offers you over the masters, which you can deploy on new platforms such as kubernetes, user management and roles. **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** The configuration on new platforms (kubernetes) is complicated. **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** The way and speed of deploying changes to production is changing. ### 41. Good **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prajwal N. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 26, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** Flexibility of platform usage is very good **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** Scalability of the product is not that good **Recommendations to others considering CloudBees:** You have to add more features automation testing during deployment **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deployment automation of our product ### 42. Easy to manage and very good to try out new features. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 20, 2019 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** The UI is very friendly and even people with non-technical background can use it without issues. I love the statistics after rolling out an experiment because they accurately reflect how many users have access to each feature. And last but not least I am happy that there’s an easy way to “roll-back” on unsuccessful features. **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** Biggest issue and most time and money consuming is the fact that it takes a while to actually access the live experiments after they have been activated. There is a cache issue or something in the system that does not allow users to interact with activated features, sometimes even for hours. **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** Limits potential issue exposure and also provides us with reactive feedback from our user base. ### 43. Good service and flexible product **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Construction | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** Flexiblity in creating build projects. It has an easy interface and is a useful structure to do many components of a project **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** Updating the version with a full product install **Recommendations to others considering CloudBees:** Understand your build process needs and plan for using the CI/CD tools for the long run **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** DEV/TEST/QA/PROD builds for our environment. Will be working on a CI/CD approach for the full integration ### 44. Powerful, but pricey **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2019 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** Simple provisioning and management of dedicated masters for separate teams using CloudBees Jenkins Operations Center. CloudBees Role-Based Access plugin made managing permissions at a group and folder level extremely easy without having to deal with regular expressions wizardry. **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** The cost per user and the licensing terms requiring a license for anybody that has access to our source code repository whether or not they ever login to CloudBees can make CloudBees Jenkins prohibitively expensive. During our ~3 years as a customer, CloudBees EOL'd the product we were using twice with no migration strategy other than building new and scp'ing job configurations from the old environment to the new environment. Licensing term changes (per executor to per use) also substantially increased our costs which was frustrating. **Recommendations to others considering CloudBees:** Be aware of the licensing terms and how that can balloon your costs. **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** It made provisioning a segregated CloudBees environment for new teams very easy without having to try to manage each master individually. ### 45. Optimization manager resource **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Danilo I. | DevOps Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** Integration native with OpenShift, auto scale, HA **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** System of upgrade, i think wouldbe more tested, we already have some issues **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** Performance and the problem with more jobs ### 46. CI CD Pipelines **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 10, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** The best part s the support from Cloudbees. **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** As it runs on Containers, knowledge of containers is must **Recommendations to others considering CloudBees:** Best tool for CI CD implementation. **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** we are working for one of Australias biggest govt project, where we have moved lot of legacy cron jobs to CloudBees Jenkins ### 47. Good Experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohd Saheel S. | DevOps Engineer , Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2019 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** The vast amount of functionality available. Ease of access and plugin availability to multiple tools. Dynamic reports and customization to them. **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** The User Interface is a little laggy and not too attractive. But its understandable since it has soo many features. The functional workflow is a bit lengthy, which can be improved. **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** Automation of release cycle and proper analytics of the releases. Dashboards help in insights. Plugins help in combining with multiple tools. ### 48. Rollout is an awesome product that adds value to any Development/Deployment workflow **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 02, 2020 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** Rollout makes it easy to create in code feature flags and has a simple to navigate interface for enabling/disabling those feature flags **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** I can't think of anything I dislike about the product currently **Recommendations to others considering CloudBees:** Any development process needs to have feature flagging to stay as agile and flexible to customer demands as possible **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** Rollout allows for teams to more easily run experiments in test or production environments by easily rolling out new features that can be rolled back on demand if needed as well as turned on for specific demographics. ### 49. Support when you need it **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mike B. | Software Engineer II, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** When dealing with cloudbees support my team and I have been overly impressed by the quick response and escalation of cases to the correct department. With the fast responses we are able to resolve issues the same day and continue to be productive when with most companies we wait a day or two just to hear back. **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** I don't think there's anything we dislike about the cloudbees support as the only cases which we have not been resolved have been due to using third party plugins that have known bugs. **Recommendations to others considering CloudBees:** Support is quick and also provides training which is a huge help when on-boarding new people **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have been working with CloudBees support to help us move our outdated freestyle jobs into pipeline and support for bugs that we find. Having a fast turn around has been huge for us so we're not keeping developers waiting even longer for build results. **Official Response from Parker Ennis:** > Mike, thanks a bunch for taking the time to review CloudBees Jenkins Support. Very happy to hear that your experience has been positive. Do let me know if there's any additional feedback you'd like to provide! My name is Parker Ennis and I'm the product marketing manager for support. My email is rennis@cloudbees.com. Thanks again! ### 50. Cloudbees really wants us to succeed in our adoption of Cloudbees Core **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adam R. | DevOps Pipeline Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2019 **What do you like best about CloudBees?** The cloudbees organization really is interested in our successful adoption of their products. From the great customer success management to their professional services, we have had great support from them as we roll out Cloudbees Core to our organization. Cloudbees Core itself offers some great improvements for my team as we manage jenkins services across multiple teams, some of them internal and some of them external. Role based access controls, shared agents, and multi-master orchestration provide an excellent balance of resource sharing and isolation for our organizational needs. **What do you dislike about CloudBees?** I don't like the syntax of pipelines but can see past that because they are a massive improvement over the old ui-based way of configuring jobs. I'm also not a fan of the pervasive use of plugins within the Jenkins community but this is something I can discourage within my organization. **Recommendations to others considering CloudBees:** If you have any need for enterprise grade jenkins, use core. If you need help with implementing jenkins across a large organization use core, and use cloudbees professional services. You won't regret it. **What problems is CloudBees solving and how is that benefiting you?** Access control for contractors vs internal users, shared knowledge of best practices through shared libraries. 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