Overview

Jenkins

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GitHub Stars24.6K

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AWS CodePipeline

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AWS CodePipeline vs Jenkins: What are the differences?

Key Differences between AWS CodePipeline and Jenkins

AWS CodePipeline and Jenkins are both popular tools used in continuous integration and deployment processes. While they serve similar purposes, there are some key differences between them.

Scalability and Manageability: AWS CodePipeline is a fully managed service provided by Amazon Web Services. It is highly scalable and requires less effort for managing infrastructure and resources. On the other hand, Jenkins needs to be set up and managed on your own infrastructure, which requires more time and effort for scalability and management.
Integration with AWS Services: As an AWS service, CodePipeline provides seamless integration with various other AWS services, such as AWS CodeCommit, AWS CodeBuild, and AWS CodeDeploy. This makes it easier to build a complete CI/CD pipeline using AWS native tools. Jenkins, on the contrary, requires additional plugins and configurations to integrate with AWS services.
Ease of Use: CodePipeline offers a user-friendly graphical interface where you can configure and visualize your CI/CD pipelines easily. It provides drag-and-drop features to simplify the pipeline creation process. Jenkins, on the other hand, has a steeper learning curve and requires expertise in scripting and configuration.
Automation and Orchestration: AWS CodePipeline focuses on pipeline orchestration and automates the deployment process, ensuring the continuous flow of software updates. It allows you to create complex workflows and visualizes the status of each stage. Jenkins, on the contrary, provides more flexibility when it comes to scripting and customization. It allows you to create more complex pipelines using an extensive range of plugins.
Security and Compliance: AWS CodePipeline integrates well with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) and provides fine-grained access control for your pipelines. It offers built-in encryption and security measures that comply with industry standards. Jenkins, however, requires additional configurations and security measures to achieve similar levels of security and compliance.
Cost Structure: AWS CodePipeline follows a pay-as-you-go pricing model. You are charged based on the number of active pipelines and the duration of their usage. Jenkins, being an open-source tool, is free to use. However, you need to consider the costs associated with setting up and managing your own infrastructure.

In summary, AWS CodePipeline provides managed scalability, seamless integration with AWS services, and an easy-to-use graphical interface. It focuses on automation, security, and compliance while following a pay-as-you-go cost structure. Jenkins offers more customization options, flexibility, and free usage, but requires more effort for managing infrastructure and security.

Advice on Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline

Balaramesh

Apr 20, 2020

Needs adviceon

Azure Pipelines

.NET

Jenkins

We are currently using Azure Pipelines for continous integration. Our applications are developed witn .NET framework. But when we look at the online Jenkins is the most widely used tool for continous integration. Can you please give me the advice which one is best to use for my case Azure pipeline or jenkins.

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StackShare

Apr 17, 2019

Needs advice

From a StackShare Community member: "Currently we use Travis CI and have optimized it as much as we can so our builds are fairly quick. Our boss is all about redundancy so we are looking for another solution to fall back on in case Travis goes down and/or jacks prices way up (they were recently acquired). Could someone recommend which CI we should go with and if they have time, an explanation of how they're different?"

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Tatiana

Nov 16, 2019

Decided

Jenkins is a pretty flexible, complete tool. Especially I love the possibility to configure jobs as a code with Jenkins pipelines.

CircleCI is well suited for small projects where the main task is to run continuous integration as quickly as possible. Travis CI is recommended primarily for open-source projects that need to be tested in different environments.

And for something a bit larger I prefer to use Jenkins because it is possible to make serious system configuration thereby different plugins. In Jenkins, I can change almost anything. But if you want to start the CI chain as soon as possible, Jenkins may not be the right choice.

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Detailed Comparison

Jenkins	AWS CodePipeline
In a nutshell Jenkins CI is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 300 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project.	CodePipeline builds, tests, and deploys your code every time there is a code change, based on the release process models you define.
Easy installation;Easy configuration;Change set support;Permanent links;RSS/E-mail/IM Integration;After-the-fact tagging;JUnit/TestNG test reporting;Distributed builds;File fingerprinting;Plugin Support	Workflow Modeling;AWS Integrations;Pre-Built Plugins;Custom Plugins;Declarative Templates;Access Control
Statistics
GitHub Stars 24.6K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 9.2K	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 59.2K	Stacks 547
Followers 50.4K	Followers 933
Votes 2.2K	Votes 30
Pros & Cons
Pros 523 Hosted internally 469 Free open source 318 Great to build, deploy or launch anything async 243 Tons of integrations 211 Rich set of plugins with good documentation Cons 13 Workarounds needed for basic requirements 10 Groovy with cumbersome syntax 8 Plugins compatibility issues 7 Limited abilities with declarative pipelines 7 Lack of support	Pros 13 Simple to set up 8 Managed service 4 GitHub integration 3 Parallel Execution 2 Automatic deployment Cons 2 No project boards 1 No integration with "Power" 365 tools
Integrations
No integrations available	Runscope Amazon S3 GitHub CloudBees BlazeMeter Ghost Inspector AWS Elastic Beanstalk Amazon EC2

What are some alternatives to Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline?

Travis CI

Free for open source projects, our CI environment provides multiple runtimes (e.g. Node.js or PHP versions), data stores and so on. Because of this, hosting your project on travis-ci.com means you can effortlessly test your library or applications against multiple runtimes and data stores without even having all of them installed locally.

Codeship

Codeship runs your automated tests and configured deployment when you push to your repository. It takes care of managing and scaling the infrastructure so that you are able to test and release more frequently and get faster feedback for building the product your users need.

CircleCI

Continuous integration and delivery platform helps software teams rapidly release code with confidence by automating the build, test, and deploy process. Offers a modern software development platform that lets teams ramp.

Buddy

Git platform for web and software developers with Docker-based tools for Continuous Integration and Deployment.

TeamCity

TeamCity is a user-friendly continuous integration (CI) server for professional developers, build engineers, and DevOps. It is trivial to setup and absolutely free for small teams and open source projects.

Drone.io

Drone is a hosted continuous integration service. It enables you to conveniently set up projects to automatically build, test, and deploy as you make changes to your code. Drone integrates seamlessly with Github, Bitbucket and Google Code as well as third party services such as Heroku, Dotcloud, Google AppEngine and more.

wercker

Wercker is a CI/CD developer automation platform designed for Microservices & Container Architecture.

GoCD

GoCD is an open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks. GoCD offers business a first-class build and deployment engine for complete control and visibility.

Shippable

Shippable is a SaaS platform that lets you easily add Continuous Integration/Deployment to your Github and BitBucket repositories. It is lightweight, super simple to setup, and runs your builds and tests faster than any other service.

Buildkite

CI and build automation tool that combines the power of your own build infrastructure with the convenience of a managed, centralized web UI. Used by Shopify, Basecamp, Digital Ocean, Venmo, Cochlear, Bugsnag and more.