Jenkins - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

Reviewers appreciate Jenkins' continuous delivery capabilities, noting its ability to automate the build, test, and deployment processes. They highlight its extensive plugin ecosystem, which integrates seamlessly with other tools. Users report that Jenkins is versatile and supports multiple programming languages and platforms. They find it helpful in reducing manual effort and saving time, though some mention that initial setup can be tricky. Overall, Jenkins is valued for its reliability and efficiency in continuous delivery workflows. Of the 45 Jenkins users who gave detailed accounts of their use of Continuous Delivery, 100% rated this feature as important or highly important.

Users report that Jenkins offers robust pipeline management capabilities, allowing for the automation of build, test, and deployment processes. They appreciate the flexibility of defining pipelines in code and the ability to manage multiple pipelines easily. Reviewers highlight the visual editor and the clean interface, which make it straightforward to track pipeline status. They also value the integration with source control, which ensures that pipeline configurations are versioned and managed like any other code. Of the 37 Jenkins users who gave detailed accounts of their use of Pipeline Management, 97% rated this feature as important or highly important.

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“The best set of features. I worked on a project to migrate the pipelines we configured on the user interface into code-based configuration, and it was impressive the level of flexibility you could have with this. Now, it was not simple, but we ended up with a system that worked fully automatically. Every time you created a new branch, Jenkins will detect it using one script and create a pipeline using a second script!”

Carlos R.

Software Engineer QA

“Pipelines are defined in code, can be parallel though one must use local variables in Groovy code to not get parallel pipeline filled with incorrect values from concurrent pipeline within same project. UI especially in BlueOcean mode gives a very clean and easy to grasp bird's eye view of the pipeline status for non-techies, while the standard UI mode may be preferred by devs. ”

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Marcin K.

Senior Technical Engineer/Senior DevOps Engineer

Reviewers indicate that Jenkins provides a variety of authentication options, including local accounts, LDAP, Active Directory, and SSO with third-party solutions. They find the setup and management of authentication mechanisms to be straightforward and appreciate the ability to integrate with their organization's existing authentication systems. Users also value the security provided by Jenkins' authentication capabilities, which help control access to the platform and ensure that only authorized users can perform specific actions. Of the 31 Jenkins users who gave detailed accounts of their use of Authentication, 97% rated this feature as important or highly important.

Users report that Jenkins facilitates continuous deployment by automating the release of built artifacts to production environments. They appreciate the availability of numerous deployment plugins and the ability to script complex deployment processes. Reviewers mention that Jenkins integrates well with version control systems like GitHub and Bitbucket, enabling seamless deployment workflows. While some users find the setup challenging, they acknowledge that Jenkins significantly improves productivity and reduces manual intervention in deployment processes. Of the 40 Jenkins users who gave detailed accounts of their use of Continuous Deployment, 95% rated this feature as important or highly important.

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“The Jenkinsfile allows you to build out as many checks, pre-deployment steps and sanity checks as you need and script your complicated deploy process.”

Dylan C.

Software Developer

“I used the program to deploy applications, in this sense it effectively performed the continuous deployment work being the tool that captured the delivered code and performed the installation of assets on the various servers involved.”

Ricardo S.

Small Company Owner

Reviewers highlight Jenkins' granular access control and permission management capabilities. They appreciate the ability to create groups, assign permissions, and control user access based on roles. Users find the matrix authorization strategy useful for managing complex permission structures. However, some mention that the system can be difficult to configure correctly, leading to occasional access issues. Overall, Jenkins' access control capabilities are valued for enhancing security and ensuring that only authorized users can perform specific tasks. Of the 39 Jenkins users who gave detailed accounts of their use of Access Controls/Permissions, 92% rated this feature as important or highly important.

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“Jenkins has "Manage Jenkins" to control access levels. We can create groups, assign permissions to this group, and add users to this group. This helps save time by not giving permissions to each user that needs access. Permissions can be modified so that some users will not be able to even see the jobs to which they do not have access. ”

Parvathy G.

Devops Engineer

“I'm using Project-based Matrix Authorization Strategy and this is the only solution capable of managing Jenkins in complex way.”

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Wojciech S.

Owner

Users appreciate Jenkins' integration with various version control systems, including Git, SVN, and Bitbucket. They find it easy to trigger builds and deployments based on changes in the repository. Reviewers highlight the importance of version control in maintaining different versions of the code and the ability to revert to previous versions if needed. They also value the seamless integration with version control platforms, which helps streamline the CI/CD process and ensures that code changes are properly tracked and managed. Of the 34 Jenkins users who gave detailed accounts of their use of Version Control, 88% rated this feature as important or highly important.

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“Jenkins can be integrated with version control system like git , bitbucket and can help deploy specific version of code to the required platform . Versioning of softwares can be easily maintained.”

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Nikhil P.

Sr. Software Engineer

“It supports almost all the SCM and could seemlessly integrate with them for automation.”

Balaji s.

Software development Engineer