Jenkins vs Bamboo

Jenkins and Bamboo serve as continuous integration (CI) tools that allow developers to integrate code branches during the development process and run a series of automated tests against them. They both transform the time -consuming, manual task of building, testing, and deploying software into a fast, automated process.

When comparing Bamboo with Jenkins, we need to consider your business needs and budget. Although they cover much of the same thing, they do so in very different ways.

Jenkins

Jenkins is the most popular open-source automation server that was written in a java programming language. It facilitates the automation process of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) in the software development process.

Jenkins supports over 1,400 plugins for other software tools. These plugins expand Jenkins into five years; platforms, UI, administration, source code management, and build management.

Jenkins is easy to install and use. It provides an impressive browser-hosted project management dashboard.

Some of the common reasons to evaluate and choose Jenkins are:

Open-source and free
Widely used and well documented
Vibrant user community
Integration with a large variety of tools and technologies.
Plugin support

Bamboo

The Bamboo is a CI and CD server from Atlassian. Like Jenkins, Bamboo allows developers to automatically build, integrate, and test source code, then prepare the app for deployment. Bamboo also works effortlessly with Atlassian's other tools like Jira (project management) and Hipchat (team communication).

The purpose of Bamboo is to provide developers with an environment which quickly compiles code for testing so that release cycles can be quickly implemented in production. It can also be customized with tons of features and add-ons that can be found at the Atlassian Marketplace. For example, it's possible to get a plugin for slack notifications.

Some reasons to evaluate and choose Bamboo include:

The bets JIRA integration
Flexible CI and CD pipelines
First-class support for deployments
Painless CI on the branch
Automated merging
Fast import from Jenkins
Legendary support and resources
Powerful build agent management
On the fly customizations

Jenkins Vs. Bamboo Comparison Table

The following are the primary comparison between Jenkins and Bamboo:

Jenkins	Bamboo
Jenkins is open-source.	Bamboo is not open-source.
Jenkins is free.	The price of Bamboo is changed depending on the number of build agents required.
We can install Jenkins on Windows, Ubuntu/Debian, RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X, OpenSUSE, Gentoo.	Bamboo can be installed on Microsoft Windows, Solaris, Linux, MacOS/OSX, and others.
Jenkins can support databases like SQL Server, SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and H2 database.	Bamboo supports MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle 12c H2 database.
Jenkins supports browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer.	Bamboo supports Firefox, Chrome, Edge, and Safari.
Jenkins supports a lot of plugins.	Bamboo does not support many plugins as compared to Jenkins.
Being open-source, Jenkins has a lot of support from communities.	Bamboo has not much support as compared to Jenkins.
Jenkins supports CVS and Subversion, built-in support for Git, and also integrates with a large number of other version control systems by plugins.	It supports Git, CVS, Perforce, Mercurial, and Subversion.
Jenkins features 127 plugins just for reporting purposes.	That's almost as much as Bamboo can offer in total reporting plugins.
With Jenkins, we can use HTML publisher plugin for publishing HTML report.	With Bamboo, we can create a new shared Artifact, for publishing HTML report.
With the help of Jenkins plugins, we can do the Unit Test.	In Bamboo also, we can run a Unit Test with the help of plugins.
In Jenkins, there is no option for Built-in deployment projects.	Bamboo has built-in deployment projects functionality.
In Jenkins, there is no built-in functionality for branch management. But we can achieve branching using plugins like Multi-Branch Project, and others.	Bamboo does a great job with branches; it has built-in support for branching.