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Jenkins vs TeamCity: What are the differences?

Introduction

Here, I have compared the key differences between Jenkins and TeamCity.

  1. Ease of use: Jenkins is known for its flexibility and customization options, which make it suitable for complex projects. However, it requires more effort and time to set up and configure. On the other hand, TeamCity is known for its user-friendly interface, easy installation process, and simplicity. It provides a more streamlined experience, especially for beginners.

  2. Scalability: Jenkins is highly scalable and can support larger teams and complex projects. It allows distributed builds and can be easily integrated with third-party tools through plugins. TeamCity, while also scalable, is more focused on small to medium-sized teams. It offers a simpler setup and configuration process, but may not provide as much flexibility for larger enterprise projects.

  3. Build configurations: Jenkins uses XML-based configuration files to define build steps and actions. This allows for more flexibility and customization options, but it can be more complex and time-consuming to set up. TeamCity, on the other hand, provides a more intuitive and visual approach to defining build configurations. It allows users to configure builds through a user-friendly web interface, making it easier to define and manage build steps.

  4. Accessibility: Jenkins is an open-source tool, which means it is free to use and has a large community of developers contributing to its continuous improvement. It is available on various platforms and can be installed on a local server or on cloud platforms. TeamCity, on the other hand, is a commercial tool developed by JetBrains. It comes with a free version with limited features, but for more advanced functionality, a license needs to be purchased.

  5. Plugin ecosystem: Jenkins has a vast library of plugins that can be used to extend its functionality. This allows users to add features and integrations from various third-party tools. TeamCity also supports plugins, but its ecosystem is not as extensive as Jenkins. While it provides essential integrations, there may be limited options for specific tools or services.

  6. Support and documentation: Jenkins has a large and active community that provides support and troubleshooting assistance. There are various online resources, documentation, and forums available to help users with any issues or questions they may have. TeamCity, being a commercially supported product, offers official support from the JetBrains team. It also provides comprehensive documentation and offers professional services for more advanced support needs.

In summary, Jenkins offers more flexibility and customization options, making it suitable for larger teams and complex projects. TeamCity, on the other hand, provides a simpler and more user-friendly experience, making it ideal for smaller teams or users who prefer a streamlined approach to continuous integration and delivery.

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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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Mohammad Hossein Amri
Chief Technology Officer at Planally · | 3 upvotes · 491.3K views
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I'm open to anything. just want something that break less and doesn't need me to pay for it, and can be hosted on Docker. our scripting language is powershell core. so it's better to support it. also we are building dotnet core in our pipeline, so if they have anything related that helps with the CI would be nice.

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Ankit Malik
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Google cloud build can help you. It is hosted on cloud and also provide reasonable free quota.

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Maxi Krone
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I would definetly recommend Concourse to you, as it is one of the most advanced modern methods of making CI/CD while Jenkins is an old monolithic dinosaur. Concourse itself is cloudnative and containerbased which helps you to build simple, high-performance and scalable CI/CD pipelines. In my opinion, the only lack of skills you have with Concourse is your own knowledge of how to build pipelines and automate things. Technincally there is no lack, i would even say you can extend it way more easily. But as a Con it is more easy to interact with Jenkins if you are only used to UIs. Concourse needs someone which is capable of using CLIs.

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Dustin Falgout
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We use CircleCI because of the better value it provides in its plans. I'm sure we could have used Travis just as easily but we found CircleCI's pricing to be more reasonable. In the two years since we signed up, the service has improved. CircleCI is always innovating and iterating on their platform. We have been very satisfied.

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Peter Thomas
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As the maintainer of the Karate DSL open-source project - I found Travis CI very easy to integrate into the GitHub workflow and it has been steady sailing for more than 2 years now ! It works well for Java / Apache Maven projects and we were able to configure it to use the latest Oracle JDK as per our needs. Thanks to the Travis CI team for this service to the open-source community !

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One of the unique things is that it has the Kaniko cache, which speeds up builds by creating intermediate layers within the docker image vs. pushing the full thing from the start. Helpful when you're installing just a few additional dependencies.

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Oded Arbel
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You are probably looking at another hosted solution: Jenkins is a good tool but it way too work intensive to be used as just a backup solution.

I have good experience with Circle-CI, Codeship, Drone.io and Travis (as well as problematic experiences with all of them), but my go-to tool is Gitlab CI: simple, powerful and if you have problems with their limitations or pricing, you can always install runners somewhere and use Gitlab just for scheduling and management. Even if you don't host your git repository at Gitlab, you can have Gitlab pull changes automatically from wherever you repo lives.

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Decisions about Jenkins and TeamCity
A Stolze
Engineering Team Lead at DCMN GmbH · | 7 upvotes · 64.7K views

Github Actions allowed us to drop previous CI/CD technologies like Jenkins or AWS CodeBuild. The main advantages for us are: - The Infrastructure-as-Code approach of Github Actions enables us to keep CI/CD configurations next to the code. - Github as a single platform for repositories and CI/CD simplifies our stack and effort to manage it on the daily basis.

TVcloud Team <3 Github Actions

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Pedro Gil Carvalho
Head of Engineering at Lengoo GmbH · | 6 upvotes · 67.5K views

We replaced Jenkins with Github Actions for all our repositories hosted on Github. GA has two significant benefits for us compared to an external build tool: it's simpler, and it sits at eye level.

Its simplicity and smooth user experience makes it easier for all developers to adopt, giving them more autonomy.

Sitting at eye level means it's completely run and configured right alongside the code, so that it's easier to observe and adjust our builds as we go.

These two benefits have made "the build" less of a system engineer responsibility and more of a developer tool, giving developers more ownership from code to release.

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Kirill Mikhailov

Jenkins is a friend of mine. 😀

There are not much space for Jenkins competitors for now from my point of view. With declarative pipelines now in place, its super easy to maintain them and create new ones(altho I prefer scripted still). Self-hosted, free, huge community makes it the top choice so honestly for me it was an easy pick.

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Stephen Badger | Vital Beats
Senior DevOps Engineer at Vital Beats · | 2 upvotes · 215.7K views

Within our deployment pipeline, we have a need to deploy to multiple customer environments, and manage secrets specifically in a way that integrates well with AWS, Kubernetes Secrets, Terraform and our pipelines ourselves.

Jenkins offered us the ability to choose one of a number of credentials/secrets management approaches, and models secrets as a more dynamic concept that GitHub Actions provided.

Additionally, we are operating Jenkins within our development Kubernetes cluster as a kind of system-wide orchestrator, allowing us to use Kubernetes pods as build agents, avoiding the ongoing direct costs associated with GitHub Actions minutes / per-user pricing. Obviously as a consequence we take on the indirect costs of maintain Jenkins itself, patching it, upgrading etc. However our experience with managing Jenkins via Kubernetes and declarative Jenkins configuration has led us to believe that this cost is small, particularly as the majority of actual building and testing is handled inside docker containers and Kubernetes, alleviating the need for less supported plugins that may make Jenkins administration more difficult.

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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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Pros of Jenkins
Pros of TeamCity
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    Hosted internally
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    Free open source
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    Great to build, deploy or launch anything async
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    Tons of integrations
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    Rich set of plugins with good documentation
  • 111
    Has support for build pipelines
  • 68
    Easy setup
  • 66
    It is open-source
  • 53
    Workflow plugin
  • 13
    Configuration as code
  • 12
    Very powerful tool
  • 11
    Many Plugins
  • 10
    Continuous Integration
  • 10
    Great flexibility
  • 9
    Git and Maven integration is better
  • 8
    100% free and open source
  • 7
    Slack Integration (plugin)
  • 7
    Github integration
  • 6
    Self-hosted GitLab Integration (plugin)
  • 6
    Easy customisation
  • 5
    Pipeline API
  • 5
    Docker support
  • 4
    Fast builds
  • 4
    Hosted Externally
  • 4
    Excellent docker integration
  • 4
    Platform idnependency
  • 3
    AWS Integration
  • 3
    JOBDSL
  • 3
    It's Everywhere
  • 3
    Customizable
  • 3
    Can be run as a Docker container
  • 3
    It`w worked
  • 2
    Loose Coupling
  • 2
    NodeJS Support
  • 2
    Build PR Branch Only
  • 2
    Easily extendable with seamless integration
  • 2
    PHP Support
  • 2
    Ruby/Rails Support
  • 2
    Universal controller
  • 61
    Easy to configure
  • 37
    Reliable and high-quality
  • 32
    User friendly
  • 32
    On premise
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    Github integration
  • 18
    Great UI
  • 16
    Smart
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    Free for open source
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    Can run jobs in parallel
  • 8
    Crossplatform
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    Chain dependencies
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    Fully-functional out of the box
  • 4
    Great support by jetbrains
  • 4
    REST API
  • 4
    Projects hierarchy
  • 4
    100+ plugins
  • 3
    Personal notifications
  • 3
    Free for small teams
  • 3
    Build templates
  • 3
    Per-project permissions
  • 2
    Upload build artifacts
  • 2
    Smart build failure analysis and tracking
  • 2
    Ide plugins
  • 2
    GitLab integration
  • 2
    Artifact dependencies
  • 2
    Official reliable support
  • 2
    Build progress messages promoting from running process
  • 1
    Repository-stored, full settings dsl with ide support
  • 1
    Built-in artifacts repository
  • 1
    Powerful build chains / pipelines
  • 1
    TeamCity Professional is FREE
  • 0
    High-Availability
  • 0
    Hosted internally

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Cons of Jenkins
Cons of TeamCity
  • 13
    Workarounds needed for basic requirements
  • 10
    Groovy with cumbersome syntax
  • 8
    Plugins compatibility issues
  • 7
    Lack of support
  • 7
    Limited abilities with declarative pipelines
  • 5
    No YAML syntax
  • 4
    Too tied to plugins versions
  • 3
    High costs for more than three build agents
  • 2
    Proprietary
  • 2
    User-friendly
  • 2
    User friendly

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What is Jenkins?

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.

What is 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.

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