CloudBees Continuous Integration Reviews & Insights

Jenkins CloudBees Platform is being used as the main orchestrator for all CI builds along with part usage in doing deployment orchestrator. CloudBees is being used with user personal agents along with common agents to be used across the platform. Using groovy written pipelines gives us a highly customizable CI-CD environment with all the features of enterprise architecture tools like user management, etc.

For all continuous integration features like multi branch pipeline, continuous build, and deployment execution, highly customizable groovy scripting, well integration with most of repositories like SVN, GIT, etc. are some of the exceptional features which helps devOps related tasks a treat to work everyday. With some minor changes in agent configuration and handling of their configuration on master instances would reduce a lot of issues. Also, cache of maven handling on agents needs to be improved (though not related to tool but the CI pipelines). But, since this is a very mature and performant tool, we expect some out of the box functionalities to handle all such scenarios. Overall, the tool works wonders because of its highly customizable features.

If you're running Jenkins in your enterprise and it's in the critical path of your software pipelines, I highly recommend CloudBees Jenkins over the open source version of the product to ensure you've got the customer and technical support you'll need for your Jenkins platform to be successful.