# Jenkins X Reviews **Vendor:** The Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) **Category:** [Continuous Integration Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/continuous-integration) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 26 ## About Jenkins X Jenkins X automates all of your CI/CD needs for creating and running cloud-native applications, letting development teams leverage the power of Kubernetes with ease in order to use the cloud well and continuously deliver their software. ## Jenkins X Reviews ### 1. awesome CI/CD tool to use with api and cli command line **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gaurav K. | Cloud Platform Architect , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Jenkins X?** APIs are very useful with the documentation as well as the command line interface to use and integrate with the ci/cd pipelines. processes for automation can be defined. its opensource. **What do you dislike about Jenkins X?** support to kubernetes and automation within kubernetes is very limited. it is also has a limited git support. its still needs cluster admin level access to kubernetes. **What problems is Jenkins X solving and how is that benefiting you?** jenkins x is open-source so there is no cost associated to use it. it is allowing us more freedom to define DevOps strategy or processes. its support kubernetes and containter based deployment. its gets well integrated with github to use for continuous integration and delivery. use of api and cli based command line give flexibility in driving automation at very generic level. it allows us to define processes for developer workflow as well as integration tests and deploymen to multiple environment. ### 2. jenkins X review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sachin R. | software engineer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2023 **What do you like best about Jenkins X?** Native support for Kubernetes, built-in CI/CD pipelines, automated scaling, and its focus on modern development practices such as GitOps and cloud-native applications. **What do you dislike about Jenkins X?** Complexity and steep learning curve, occasional stability issues, and the need for a deep understanding of Kubernetes and cloud-native concepts. **What problems is Jenkins X solving and how is that benefiting you?** Streamlined CI/CD, Kubernetes-native deployments, GitOps, Automatic versioning and promotion, Isolated environment ### 3. Jenkins **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Umashankar M. | Software Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Jenkins X?** We can build, test and deploy the software easily **What do you dislike about Jenkins X?** It does not support python, complex and learning curve **What problems is Jenkins X solving and how is that benefiting you?** Main thing is integrating the different tools for automation. ### 4. A complete CICD solution **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Swati R. | Senior Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 08, 2022 **What do you like best about Jenkins X?** - The installation is as easy as installing Jenkins - CICD automation with Jenkins X is faster as there is no need to worry about configuring underlying infrastructure. - Developers can create their open sandbox environment in Jenkins X cluster. **What do you dislike about Jenkins X?** - Need to extend Jenkins X for other CICD tools like Ansible , chef ,puppet , repository management tools etc. **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins X:** - No need to create separate kubernetes clusters for sandbox environments. Jenkins X is doing all the things in 1 shot. **What problems is Jenkins X solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Earlier we used to maintain separate environments for our CICD solutions.We used kubernetes for deployments. - Now with the use of Jenkins X only, we are creating helm charts for deploying and running our application on kubernetes. - All the jx commands make it v easy to run processes in Jenkins X system. ### 5. Azure still unusable for me **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2020 **What do you like best about Jenkins X?** The all container solution is what i like. **What do you dislike about Jenkins X?** The lack of support for Azure Kubernetes Service. **What problems is Jenkins X solving and how is that benefiting you?** Staging deployments automated. ### 6. Great experience with G2 **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sarba n. | Python/ Django developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 12, 2020 **What do you like best about Jenkins X?** Jenkins X is open source and Interface is very easy to understand. **What do you dislike about Jenkins X?** Nothing much to dislike. Everything seems to be pretty good **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins X:** They should try it. **What problems is Jenkins X solving and how is that benefiting you?** This has increase the ability to provide more performance in building and compiling applications by spreading the workload across a multitude of servers. ### 7. Very easy to use, well rounded CI solution **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Navonil M. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 11, 2020 **What do you like best about Jenkins X?** Clean interface. Items that require attention are easy to find. **What do you dislike about Jenkins X?** Error messages could be better, especially when builds fail for not so obvious reasons. **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins X:** Easily recommend anyone looking for a CI/CD solution to consider Jenkins X **What problems is Jenkins X solving and how is that benefiting you?** One stop solution for all our CI needs. Easily to integrate across platforms. ### 8. JenkinsX CI CD Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohammad A. | Senior Java Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 10, 2020 **What do you like best about Jenkins X?** Jenkins is open source and completely free,it's support a lot of plugins.pipeline as code is wonderful **What do you dislike about Jenkins X?** Can't write logic for your pipeline because your using had its own logic. **What problems is Jenkins X solving and how is that benefiting you?** Continuous integration and deployment is one of the best which I realised ,we didn't require any manual process for deployment. ### 9. Best decision **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alden R. | Client Finance Controller & CSR Council member, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2020 **What do you like best about Jenkins X?** The continuous improvement and deployment capabilities **What do you dislike about Jenkins X?** Nothing to be specific. The interface could be slightly better **What problems is Jenkins X solving and how is that benefiting you?** Streamlined process ### 10. review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 27, 2020 **What do you like best about Jenkins X?** functional feature and integration functionality of Jenkins **What do you dislike about Jenkins X?** The UI of Jenkins is not good and it has a very complex design **What problems is Jenkins X solving and how is that benefiting you?** na ### 11. Very good **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 10, 2020 **What do you like best about Jenkins X?** Interface is very easy to understand. Jenkins jobs can be performed easily **What do you dislike about Jenkins X?** Nothing much to dislike. Everything seems to be pretty good **What problems is Jenkins X solving and how is that benefiting you?** SonarQube analysis, Jenkins jobs and fee pipelines setup. ### 12. very powerful tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 13, 2020 **What do you like best about Jenkins X?** best tool we use for integration on the mobile application testing **What do you dislike about Jenkins X?** more links to educate on the tool adoption **What problems is Jenkins X solving and how is that benefiting you?** continuous delivery ### 13. Insightful **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Chemicals | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 12, 2020 **What do you like best about Jenkins X?** Complete package, easy to operate. Graphical view **What do you dislike about Jenkins X?** User interface, environment setup and dashboard view **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins X:** Improve on http elements **What problems is Jenkins X solving and how is that benefiting you?** Insightful ### 14. We're just getting started, but so far, so good! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 13, 2019 **What do you like best about Jenkins X?** So far, we like the potential for adding to what we already have with Jenkins full implementation where our developers commit to master, and we deploy to production shortly after. **What do you dislike about Jenkins X?** We're a little concerned about the effort to convert our full pipelines to Jenkins-X. They are non-trivial, and we're not sure about the effort to convert cleanly. And no UI is currently a show stopper for our dev/and management teams. Hopefully the UI will be available by the time we figure out the migration from our current system. **What problems is Jenkins X solving and how is that benefiting you?** As I said, we're just getting started, but we're looking forward to lower costs at our provider (we spend a LOT keeping our current environment running for use. ### 15. We are evaluating Jenkins-X for our cloud workloads **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Jenkins X?** Makes life so easy, minimal setup / configuration on the developer's machine, easy to get started and very intuitive as a process. **What do you dislike about Jenkins X?** Early days, waiting for more support apart from GCP, and AWS (coming up). We are eagerly waiting for more integrations. **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins X:** Eagerly waiting for more cloud integrations, including IBM Cloud. **What problems is Jenkins X solving and how is that benefiting you?** GitOps is simply amazing and simple to adopt. Makes our lives easier, and Git as a source of truth helps a lot. More importantly, wanted to reduce the complexity of setting up of pipelines as we see more DevOps adoption in our organization ### 16. CI/CD for Kubernetes **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2019 **What do you like best about Jenkins X?** - easy to setup, and run "hello world" POC - Preview Environments to run our integration tests for each Pull Request in isolation - Gitops workflow - integration of existing tools (helm, kaniko, ...) - jx CLI - easy to customize - easy to contribute to - support from the core devs in slack, and from the community **What do you dislike about Jenkins X?** very fast development, not easy to follow. What was the "best practice" and recommended way of doing things may well be deprecated a few months later, in favor of something else. **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins X:** Use it with Github and GKE - if you are deploying to Kubernetes **What problems is Jenkins X solving and how is that benefiting you?** as part of our migration to Kubernetes (GKE), we were looking for a CI/CD solution. We already used Jenkins previously, so Jenkins X was a very good solution for us because we could re-use our existing Jenkins knowledge and pipelines, while improving them with Preview Environments and continuous delivery/deployment, using a gitops workflow. Our benefits are: - much faster feedback, by running more integration tests in the preview environments as part of the Pull Request - improved quality of our releases, also by running more integration tests as part of the PR - faster deployment process - everything is git, including deployments. full audit and visibility on everything ### 17. Easy to scale up the clusters for deployments **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Jenkins X?** Ease of simplicity in initially setting up and scaling across servers. Compatabile with a multitude of other tools for better integration. Allows the ability to deploy across clusters to scale out applications and simplify deploy times. **What do you dislike about Jenkins X?** Unfortunately does not support the ability to integrate with a wider range of tools. **What problems is Jenkins X solving and how is that benefiting you?** This has increase the ability to provide more performance in building and compiling applications by spreading the workload across a multitude of servers. ### 18. super jenkins **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Jenkins X?** well the most amazing explination about ci/cd so much knoledge i dint want it to finish **What do you dislike about Jenkins X?** nothing everything was on point the have 5 starts review thaths i will give **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins X:** just tell them they are the super heroes for ci cd **What problems is Jenkins X solving and how is that benefiting you?** well im building a super app and this is gonna change the world so i need a plataform like jenkings to help me connect all this amazing technologies together ### 19. review on jenkins-x **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** rajashekar a. | devops engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Jenkins X?** best way to spin up instant jenkins environement. great tool to work on **What do you dislike about Jenkins X?** i think limited feature and limitations on cloud **What problems is Jenkins X solving and how is that benefiting you?** it solves many issues with the agents ### 20. jenkins is a great tool to use **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 07, 2019 **What do you like best about Jenkins X?** it has rich sets of plugins. it is easy to setup with great instructions. **What do you dislike about Jenkins X?** the posts on forum are not responsed for very long time. **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins X:** it is great tool to use for delivery and integration. **What problems is Jenkins X solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has stable functionalities, simple configuration. it provides continuous delivery and integration. ### 21. Great product **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Jenkins X?** Simple, similar to jenkins, not difficult to pick up if you are jankins user, great tool to deploy to cloud **What do you dislike about Jenkins X?** Personally I not fan of yaml files. Tool looks promising but need more adoption to become defecto/ tool of choice **What problems is Jenkins X solving and how is that benefiting you?** container deployment ### 22. My Review for Jenkins X **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Wireless | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Jenkins X?** The availability and portability which Jenkins X provides makes it most convenient platform to use. **What do you dislike about Jenkins X?** Limited updates and slow upgrade features are a concern to look out for. **Recommendations to others considering Jenkins X:** Its the best CI/CD tool **What problems is Jenkins X solving and how is that benefiting you?** CI/CD works best with the Jenkins X ### 23. Jenkins X Improving Continuous Delivery **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Jenkins X?** Simplifies Kubernetes, preview environment, gitops flow **What do you dislike about Jenkins X?** No control to prevent provisioning of Load Balancer (security requirements prevents me from using it). **What problems is Jenkins X solving and how is that benefiting you?** Delivering software faster with features that are important to the the business but with consistency in environment configuration. ### 24. Easy to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Airlines/Aviation | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Jenkins X?** Easy to use, readable syntax and available documentation and declarative syntax **What do you dislike about Jenkins X?** so far so good! may need more time for everyone to adopt jenkins X **What problems is Jenkins X solving and how is that benefiting you?** made our deployment process very simple and easy ### 25. Jenkins X **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Jenkins X?** No need to install Jenkins to use Jenkins X. Makes things much easier **What do you dislike about Jenkins X?** nothing much i dislike. i find the solution quite resourceful and user friendly **What problems is Jenkins X solving and how is that benefiting you?** ability to achieve CI and CD ### 26. Everything you need in 1 solution that just works! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matthew L. | Chief Technology Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Jenkins X?** Code auto-detection, easy to implement and maintain. **What do you dislike about Jenkins X?** Nothing I dislike about Jenkins-X its just a solid platform **What problems is Jenkins X solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building simple easy to use pipelines for all projects. 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