[users at bb.net] BuildBot versus Jenkins

[Greg MacDonald]

Hi Jeremy,

I have experience with both. Jenkins is more about providing canned plugins that offer specific workflows whereas Buildbot is more of a toolkit to build exactly what you need. With Jenkins you'll spend a lot of time looking around for plugins that may or may not be a fit. If those plugins are buggy you'll have to wait for a fix from the community or learn java and dig in anyway. On the up side for Jenkins there are tons of plugins.

Jenkins is easier to use initially but ultimately less powerful; BB is more complicated to learn up front but very powerful. For example, BB nine's angular based UI plugin system is cutting edge and incredibly powerful, but you'll have to learn angular. On the up side angular is a very popular and well-designed system worth learning. There is a lack of UI plugins with BB, but I'm hoping to see more community contributed plugins in py-pi after nine releases.

Both are fine build systems, but in my opinion I think Jenkins is good for smaller projects that aren't too complex. Since you have a sophisticated system I would tell your boss it's not worth the effort to change. Jenkins is far from perfect. And buildbot is composed with industry standard technologies like python, nodejs, and angular. As well as solid libraries like twisted. It's also one of the most well designed projects I've ever come across.

-Greg

From: users [mailto:users-bounces at buildbot.net] On Behalf Of Jeremy Cornett
Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2016 2:00 PM
To: users at buildbot.net
Subject: [users at bb.net] BuildBot versus Jenkins

I've been an administrator of my company's automated build system for almost 4 years now, and for all of that time we've been using BuildBot. We have a rather sophisticated system, with a lot of added functionality, and I rather like BuildBot. My boss is wanting me to explore replacing our BuildBot instance with Jenkins, with the reasoning that Jenkins is more of an industry standard (more active development community) and it's easier to use from a developer/tester perspective. I really don't know if his reasoning is correct or not as I've never used Jenkins, but that aside, I was wondering if anyone else has faced this question, "BuildBot versus Jenkins," and how did you answer it?

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| Jeremy Cornett | Configuration Management Engineer



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