CloudBees Core feature comparison
CloudBees Core is an end-to-end continuous software delivery system.
The following section describes the features and services in each version of CloudBees Core, including CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise, the predecessor to CloudBees Core.
To purchase additional features or services, contact your account manager, Customer Success Manager, or CloudBees Sales.
Features
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Jenkins LTS |
CloudBees Jenkins Distribution |
CloudBees Core |
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Modern platforms |
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Community |
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The leading automation platform for Continuous Integration and Delivery |
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Ecosystem of 1,600+ plugins |
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Professional technical support |
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Curated, verified Jenkins plugins (150+ plugins) with CloudBees Assurance Program |
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Verified distribution of Jenkins - ensures plugin compatibility |
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Beekeeper Upgrade Assistant |
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Installation and updates |
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Monthly rolling releases |
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Automated incremental security updates with Beekeeper |
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Continuous delivery |
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Build complex delivery pipelines with Pipeline feature |
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Builds that survive master and agent failures with Pipeline feature |
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Ephemeral build agents |
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User-friendly declarative syntax for pipeline modeling |
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Enterprise continuous delivery |
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CloudBees-provided ServiceNow plugin |
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Restart builds from checkpointed locations |
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Cross-team/cross-master collaboration (pub/sub message bus) |
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Manage inbound events across multiple masters |
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Automated pipeline creation based on centralized templates |
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Docker containers |
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Build delivery pipelines with Pipeline and Docker |
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Share cloud agent configuration across a cluster of masters |
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Team management |
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Organize jobs with folders |
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Organize teams, infrastructure, and credentials with Folders Plus features |
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Dynamically share build agents across masters |
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Streamlined master provisioning |
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Supports self-service master provisioning |
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Security |
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Centralized credentials management |
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Centrally enforce common security options, including authentication system |
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Centrally managed role-based access control |
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Single Sign-On (SSO) across masters |
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Isolate team-sensitive agents |
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Support for self-signed certificates (cluster configuration) |
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CloudBees-provided CyberArk plugin, allowing storage of Jenkins credentials in an external CyberArk vault |
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Jenkins in cloud/managed Kubernetes |
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Auto-configured Kubernetes agent |
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Validated for AKS, EKS, GKE, PKS, and OpenShift (Kubernetes) |
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Windows container support on AWS EKS |
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Developer productivity |
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Shared best practices with Templates feature |
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Pipeline template catalog |
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Optimized utilization |
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Faster builds across geographically dispersed agents with Fast Archiver feature |
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Throttle builds during high loads with Label Throttle Build feature |
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"Sleep" unused masters and reclaim resources with Hibernation of Managed Masters |
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Enterprise management |
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Manage plugin procurement and deployment via Custom Update Center feature |
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Manage plugin availability and updates with custom plugin catalogs |
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Convenient master management/scaling |
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Automated backup and recovery |
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Move/copy/promote jobs and folders |
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Shared configurations |
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Trigger restrictions |
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Cluster operations |
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Enterprise analytics |
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Infrastructure health monitoring and alerting |
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Custom build and monitoring dashboards |
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