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Bitrise vs Jenkins: What are the differences?
Bitrise: Automate your mobile app development from building through testing to deployment. In short Bitrise is a Continous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) Platform as a Service (PaaS) with a main focus on mobile app development (iOS, Android). You can automate the testing and deployment of your apps with just a few clicks. When you trigger a build a Virtual Machine is assigned to host your build and your defined Workflow (series of Steps scripts) will be executed, step by step; Jenkins: An extendable open source continuous integration server. 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.
Bitrise and Jenkins are primarily classified as "Mobile Continuous Integration" and "Continuous Integration" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by Bitrise are:
- Continuous Delivery
- Hosted Environment
- Customizable Workflows
On the other hand, Jenkins provides the following key features:
- Easy installation
- Easy configuration
- Change set support
"Easy setup" is the top reason why over 10 developers like Bitrise, while over 497 developers mention "Hosted internally" as the leading cause for choosing Jenkins.
Jenkins is an open source tool with 13.3K GitHub stars and 5.48K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Jenkins's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Jenkins has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1775 company stacks & 1526 developers stacks; compared to Bitrise, which is listed in 29 company stacks and 14 developer stacks.
Pros of Bitrise
- Easy setup18
- Bitbucket Integration9
- Advanced Workflow configuration8
- Slack integration7
- Github Integration7
- Great tools for iOS and Android development5
- Friendly & Easy to use5
- Great support4
- Pricing by concurrency, not team size3
- Open Source2
- Discounts for contributors2
- Fast Updates2
- Developer centric1
- Fast Builds1
Pros of Jenkins
- Hosted internally522
- Free open source468
- Great to build, deploy or launch anything async316
- Tons of integrations242
- Rich set of plugins with good documentation211
- Has support for build pipelines111
- Easy setup68
- It is open-source65
- Workflow plugin53
- Configuration as code13
- Very powerful tool11
- Continuous Integration10
- Many Plugins10
- Git and Maven integration is better9
- Great flexibility9
- 100% free and open source8
- Slack Integration (plugin)7
- Github integration7
- Easy customisation6
- Self-hosted GitLab Integration (plugin)6
- Docker support5
- Pipeline API5
- Excellent docker integration4
- Fast builds4
- Hosted Externally4
- Platform idnependency4
- It's Everywhere3
- It`w worked3
- Can be run as a Docker container3
- Customizable3
- AWS Integration3
- JOBDSL3
- Universal controller2
- Easily extendable with seamless integration2
- PHP Support2
- Build PR Branch Only2
- NodeJS Support2
- Ruby/Rails Support2
- Loose Coupling2
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Cons of Bitrise
Cons of Jenkins
- Workarounds needed for basic requirements13
- Groovy with cumbersome syntax10
- Plugins compatibility issues8
- Lack of support7
- Limited abilities with declarative pipelines7
- No YAML syntax5
- Too tied to plugins versions4