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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Atlassian Bamboo

    Score6.7 out of 10
    N/AAustralian company Atlassian offers Bamboo, a continuous integration server.

    $1,200

    1 remote agent

    TeamCity

    Score7.4 out of 10
    N/ATeamCity is a continuous integration server from Czeck company JetBrains.N/A
    Pricing
    Atlassian BambooTeamCity
    Editions & Modules
    1 Remote Agent
    $1200
    5 Remote Agents
    $3200
    10 Remote Agents
    $5840
    25 Remote Agents
    $11,600
    100 Remote Agents
    $23,280
    250 Remote Agents
    $58,160
    500 Remote Agents
    $87,280
    1000 Remote Agents
    $133,840
    2000 Remote Agents
    $187,380
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Atlassian BambooTeamCity
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Atlassian BambooTeamCity
    Considered Both Products
    Atlassian
    Chose Atlassian Bamboo
    Bamboo has a friendlier interface than either TeamCity or Jenkins and has better integration with Jira and Bitbucket
    Incentivized
    Chose Atlassian Bamboo
    Bamboo won solely based on the fact we were "all-in" with Atlassian. TeamCity is now in the process of taking over as we transition off of Bamboo, and I think TeamCity stacks up nice against Bamboo thus far (too soon to tell).
    Incentivized
    Chose Atlassian Bamboo
    I didn't select Bamboo. I mentioned how it compared in other parts of this review, but to summarize:

    • Pros: easier to use and cleaner UI
    Incentivized
    Chose Atlassian Bamboo
    Bamboo is hands-down the best of these options if you rely on other products of Atlassian origin. Bamboo is not just built for teams, but teams-of-teams and teams of many workers. It has the administrative features you need to manage and maintain CI at scale. Enterprise model …
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    JetBrains
    Chose TeamCity
    I would also like to compare TeamCity against Snap-Ci as well as Concourse. We chose TeamCity over all of these tools because of its ability to be set up easily against a restricting corporate firewall. We needed to integrate unit tests, integration tests, pushes to production, …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    8 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    71%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
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    Score10 out of 10
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    Enterprises
    Octopus Deploy
    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Atlassian BambooTeamCity
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.4
    (24 ratings)
    10.0
    (18 ratings)
    Usability
    9.3
    (5 ratings)
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    Performance
    -
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    9.3
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (6 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Atlassian BambooTeamCity
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Atlassian
    If you value integration over cost, Bamboo is clearly the way to go. It offers tight integration to the rest of the Atlassian suite, and when you need traceability from issue to build, Atlassian is the right way to go. However, if you find yourself needing to save on costs, you may consider taking an approach of rolling your own build system with open source alternatives, such as Jenkins, if you don't [mind] putting in a little extra elbow grease.
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    JetBrains
    TeamCity is very quick and straightforward to get up and running. A new server and a handful of agents could be brought online in easily under an hour. The professional tier is completely free, full-featured, and offers a huge amount of growth potential. TeamCity does exceptionally well in a small-scale business or enterprise setting.
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    Pros
    Atlassian
    • Levels of granularity. Organization has many projects that have many build plans that have many jobs that have many tasks, etc. And branch builds allow source control branches to be built separately.
    • Versatility. I can use bamboo to manage my Java, node, or .NET build plans. I can use it to spin up Windows or Linux build agents, or install it on a Mac to build there as well.
    • Bamboo integrates with other Atlassian products like Bitbucket, Stash, JIRA, etc. If a company commits to the entire Atlassian stack then work can be tracked through the whole development lifecycle which is really useful.
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    JetBrains
    • TeamCity provides a great integration with git, especially Bitbucket.
    • When a new code release (build) fails TeamCity has a great tool for investigation and troubleshooting.
    • TeamCity provides a user-friendly interface. While some technical knowledge is required to use TeamCity, the design helps simply things.
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    Cons
    Atlassian
    • Extremely hard barrier to entry for non-backend developers
    • Blackbox makes it hard to customize functionality
    • The inability to add features without breaking core functionality
    • No cloud solution
    • Tasks cannot be put in if/else statements
    • No clear right way to form build plans
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    JetBrains
    • The customization is still fairly complex and is best managed by a dev support team. There is great flexibility, but with flexibility comes responsibility. It isn't always obvious to a developer how to make simple customizations.
    • Sometimes the process for dealing with errors in the process isn't obvious. Some paths to rerunning steps redo dependencies unnecessarily while other paths that don't are less obvious.
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    Usability
    Atlassian
    Bamboo offers solid usability for teams looking for an integrated, scalable CI/CD solution, especially those using Atlassian tools. Its interface is intuitive for existing Atlassian users, and its focus on deployment automation makes it a strong option for continuous delivery. However, its complexity and cost may pose challenges for small teams or those new to CI/CD. Overall, Bamboo’s usability shines in environments where ease of integration and streamlined workflows are prioritized. Still, it may require more effort for teams unfamiliar with its setup or without dedicated resources.
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    JetBrains
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Atlassian
    No answers on this topic
    JetBrains
    TeamCity runs really well, even when sharing a small instance with other applications. The user interface adequately conveys important information without being overly bloated, and it is snappy. There isn't any significant overhead to build agents or unit test runners that we have measured.
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    Support Rating
    Atlassian
    Bamboo is a fairly small product but having said that it was fairly easy to get assistance. Especially for the small to easy things. Anything large or fairly complex was an issue finding detailed answers for. This caused a lot of trial and error on our part to try to find a solution.
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    JetBrains
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    Alternatives Considered
    Atlassian
    We selected Bamboo because its capabilities to integrate with other Atlassian products specially Jira Software, Bitbucket and in some useful scenarios with Confluence. Also, we found these pros important for us: great user interface, easily agent deployment, Docker compability, simply to maintain / manage, and straightforwardly integration with different notification platforms
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    JetBrains
    TeamCity is a great on-premise Continuous Integration tool. Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) is a hosted SAAS application in Microsoft's Cloud. VSTS is a Source Code Repository, Build and Release System, and Agile Project Management Platform - whereas TeamCity is a Build and Release System only. TeamCity's interface is easier to use than VSTS, and neither have a great deployment pipeline solution. But VSTS's natural integration with Microsoft products, Microsoft's Cloud, Integration with Azure Active Directory, and free, private, Source Code repository - offer additional features and capabilities not available with Team City alone.
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    Return on Investment
    Atlassian
    • It helped us achieve the Continuous Deployment and Continuous Integration goals for our applications, a huge milestone that saved a lot of time for developers in making the builds and deployments and saved time for QA in running the automated tests.
    • Helped with DevOps: we moved the formal approval from the email to the system and allowed the approver to actually push the button for the production deployments.
    • Biggest positive impact of using Bamboo is that it improved our response time to customers and increased the frequency of our deliveries to them.
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    JetBrains
    • TeamCity has greatly improved team efficiency by streamlining our production and pre-production pipelines. We moved to TeamCity after seeing other teams have more success with it than we had with other tools.
    • TeamCity has helped the reliability of our product by easily allowing us to integrate unit testing, as well as full integration testing. This was not possible with other tools given our corporate firewall.
    • TeamCity's ability to include Docker containers in the pipeline steps has been crucial in improving our efficiency and reliability.
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