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Well supported orchestration for your CI pipelines
What do you like best about the product?
Scripted masters and Kubernetes based system which allows us to scale out our pipelines and services without manual intervention.
What do you dislike about the product?
Upgrading and keeping an eye for patches can be time-consuming. Though the Cloudbees support and advisor removes the time for investigations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have saved numerous hours of maintenance and debugging by taking advantage of CloudBees support and their CI advisories.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
CloudBees CI is flexible with a large ecosystem of every needed plugin and well supported by their support team. With helm, upgrading Cloudbees CI is easier than it's ever been, though it still requires keeping an eye on the changes and parsing the release notes with a critical eye. A poorly executed upgrade can take your system offline for hours.
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Cloud bee has Mature CI Product
What do you like best about the product?
I liked complete workflow design capabilities. Has a very good UI , covers almost all features
What do you dislike about the product?
Even though product has very rich features configuring them is bit Complex
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has integration to electric cloud which makes project management and release management Very easy
Recommendations to others considering the product:
CloudBees products are very good with great features which makes build and deployment easy
Abstraction at it's best
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of upgrade and updating the plugins
What do you dislike about the product?
No feature to enable/disable the license. Please include a feature where we can disable/enable the license, this will be useful when we create a clone/snapshot. I have faced this issue during the restoration of the snapshot/backup it starts showing the new instance as a standby CI server and there is no such option to induce and test VM level failure.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
A very stable platform and helps us run our build process round the clock.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
CloudBees people are best at what they make and do. Do not be doubtful and don't think much, just go for it. You'll never regret your decision.
Amazing CI platform integrates smoothly with Cloud solutions
What do you like best about the product?
Cloudbees Jenkins Operation Centre is the best CI tool integrates well with AWS & other cloud providers.
Cloudbees documentation on integration with other solutions is top notch. I faced initial hiccups with setting up Kaniko integration for docker-less build of images and pushing to Amazon ECR but once I went through the self explanatory documentation of Cloudbees Jenkins with Kaniko pipeline it was just matter of minutes to get up and running.
The Cloudbees Plugin Catalogue is also very helpful in choosing the right plugin with Cloudbees Support enabled. We don't use any plugin which is not approved by Cloudbees. This way our systems & apps stay much safer than before.
Cloudbees support has provided exceptional support and guidance for numerous projects and helped us get over the line with confidence.
Cloudbees documentation on integration with other solutions is top notch. I faced initial hiccups with setting up Kaniko integration for docker-less build of images and pushing to Amazon ECR but once I went through the self explanatory documentation of Cloudbees Jenkins with Kaniko pipeline it was just matter of minutes to get up and running.
The Cloudbees Plugin Catalogue is also very helpful in choosing the right plugin with Cloudbees Support enabled. We don't use any plugin which is not approved by Cloudbees. This way our systems & apps stay much safer than before.
Cloudbees support has provided exceptional support and guidance for numerous projects and helped us get over the line with confidence.
What do you dislike about the product?
Cloudbees could think about a competitive pricing, even though it has an enormous count of products and well maintained support system for each of them, there are some areas where I personally felt the pricing could have been 5-10% less.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have re-architected our whole CI platform on AWS EKS using Cloudbees Jenkins Operation Centre where we have ephemeral containerized build agents
as compared to previously used Static VMs we are saving close to a $1M every year.
as compared to previously used Static VMs we are saving close to a $1M every year.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The best time to get onboard with Cloudbees is "TODAY" analyze your requirement and talk to any cloudbees support channel you would get all the answers immediately. The Products are very well maintained and with every new upgrade you get new features right out of the box.
The Cloudbees support and guidance is unparalleled to any vendor. I personally felt like they held my hands in every tough situation and helped me fix the issue ASAP.
You can also ask for future features as RFEs (Request For Enhancement) so their engineers would prioritize the work and deliver as a new upgrade.
There are endless possibilities with Cloudbees and their model of operation, being an active user/administrator of Cloudbees Jenkins for over 4 years, I can tell the difference it offers right away.
The Cloudbees support and guidance is unparalleled to any vendor. I personally felt like they held my hands in every tough situation and helped me fix the issue ASAP.
You can also ask for future features as RFEs (Request For Enhancement) so their engineers would prioritize the work and deliver as a new upgrade.
There are endless possibilities with Cloudbees and their model of operation, being an active user/administrator of Cloudbees Jenkins for over 4 years, I can tell the difference it offers right away.
The standard in CI/CD - with great advantages of the paid version, but also disadvantages
What do you like best about the product?
Jenkins is extended by many helpful enterprise plugins like role based access, templates and many more and especially by connecting the various Jenkins to one huge cluster that you can manage and operate like one large Jenkins including trigger and copy artifact. Installed on a cloud system like OpenShift, you can even spin up a new Jenkins with one click. License allows any number of Jenkins instances.
Teams can be onboarded and managed easily with templates.
Automated and quality assured updates of most important plugins make maintenance a lot easier.
Support is professional and fast in most cases.
Teams can be onboarded and managed easily with templates.
Automated and quality assured updates of most important plugins make maintenance a lot easier.
Support is professional and fast in most cases.
What do you dislike about the product?
The paid version is quite expensive. The license model was improved - it formerly was per master and executors which could lead to architecture based on license. Today it is better, now based on users (logged in or committing to SCM) , but with high costs per user, which can lead to hight costs very fast or it might lead you to try to limit number of users or switch some projects back to open source Jenkins losing the clustering advantages for these teams.
Changes and bugfixes sometimes can take a long time if they are important for you but not relevant for (many) other customers.
Changes and bugfixes sometimes can take a long time if they are important for you but not relevant for (many) other customers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Jenkins, the de facto standard for CI, can be a lot more useful with the enterprise plugins and with the clustering option.
You can manage large projects or many teams and projects a lot better than with one large Jenkins (Jenkinstein) or with many small non-connected ones.
Refactoring is made easier by just moving directories/projects around in the cluster.
Jobs can run as if they were on one large Jenkins (i.e. trigger, copy artifacts etc.)
You can manage large projects or many teams and projects a lot better than with one large Jenkins (Jenkinstein) or with many small non-connected ones.
Refactoring is made easier by just moving directories/projects around in the cluster.
Jobs can run as if they were on one large Jenkins (i.e. trigger, copy artifacts etc.)
CloudBees CI is to use for any sort of automation for build and deployments
What do you like best about the product?
Very useful when using with multi branch pipelines. Easy to connect agents and adding separate Jenkins nodes for different products when we have more load. We can easily connect the other tools like bitbucket , Harness, artifactory and Jira to have easy automation. Blue ocean UI is very much recommended by our developers and testing team to have more visibility in the logs.
What do you dislike about the product?
Difficult UI to use while configuring the jobs. And Global config takes very long time to load.Deployments are a bit difficult to configure . Windows connectivity to Amazon AWS agents is having lot of bugs. Sometimes we experience lot of problems with number of plugins and it is difficult to identify which plugin is causing the problems.Lot of times we endup in uninstalling the plugin which are old or deprecated. Only few of them are supported by Cloudbees support.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use CloudBees CI for our daily builds and deployments. And also use CloudBees CI for self service jobs which help to increase the developer productivity. We use for our CI for almost all the products and Test Automation and also for mobile device testing.
We are also solving all the automation required for the QA teams and Dev Ops teams and also UI teams for day to day automations.
We are also solving all the automation required for the QA teams and Dev Ops teams and also UI teams for day to day automations.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Because of pipeline support and more flexibility and easy to configure agents and adding separate Jenkins nodes for different products when we have more load.We can easily connect the other tools like bitbucket , Harness, artifactory and Jira to have easy automation. Blue ocean UI is very much recommended by our developers and testing team to have more visibility in the logs.
Good product to automate everything
What do you like best about the product?
Lots of plugin and open source version too
What do you dislike about the product?
Interface is outdated and slow sometimes
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We automated all our build and releases globally
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure to not just add plugins you need to understand what you are doing first
It has been good but experience but not great
What do you like best about the product?
If in case we get stuck with the issues, the support is good.
What do you dislike about the product?
Want to see more integrating capabilities for signing in with Microsoft AD and other vendors.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using Cloud bees Jenkins to do our CI/CD in the automated fashion.
Currently using cloudbees in our company for numerous CI stuff and its working great
What do you like best about the product?
The easy scalability and usage. We are deploying around 10-20microservices using it
What do you dislike about the product?
currently none. Till now we haven't faced any issue in it.
What problems is the product 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
Perfect package to manage your software delivery
What do you like best about the product?
Cloudbees Jenkins and Jenkins Core. both give me an ultimate experience of having our whole organization a stop shop to place all the projects at one place and very easier to manage all of it. Also, we can leverage the configuration by project basis which is really awesome.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are few plugins which are only available in the paid version. Cloudbees should enable some of them for community edition as they play a major role for everybody using the Cloubdees products.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We've solved the manual process of building, promoting to env's. Deployment to higher env's. it's all automated now with cloud bees Jenkins
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