Rundeck vs Jenkins

Rundeck and Jenkins are the tools that run in most of the systems where JAVA runtime is installed because they both are built on JAVA. Using package managers from Linux and Windows, both tools offer an easy installation. Also, they support Docker-based installation which is very well used by many organizations nowadays. Both tools complement each other and can be used according to the requirement.

Rundeck

Rundeck is an open-source tool used by both small-scale and large-scale organizations to define build, deploy and manage automation. Basically, it is designed for the purpose of doing operation tasks, which make it great CD tools.

Advantages

• It can be easily implemented on traditional architectures.
• It saves a lot of time and expense for businesses.
• It provides complete support to the QA teams.
• It provides full security.

Disadvantages

• It does not have Priority-Based Support, Account Management, SLA Response.
• It does not provide high availability clusters.
• It does not provide single sign-on authentication.

Jenkins

Jenkins is considered to be the best build tool in the software industry as it is an open-source continuous integration server that is extendable. It makes it possible to integrate every type of automation solution.

Advantages

• Huge plugin library is available.
• Self-hosted
• It has complete control of the workspace
• Various languages are supported.

Disadvantages

• Setting up of small projects is manually.
• It does not provide analytics.

Difference between Rundeck and Jenkins

	Rundeck	Jenkins
Tool	It is an operations tool.	It is a development tool.
APIs	APIs are used to trigger the jobs.	APIs are not used in Jenkins
Environment	Environment details are collected for task execution.	It only does automation and does not know anything about environment.
Activities and Notifications	All the activities are logged in, and notifications are sent	All the activities are not logged in, and notifications are not sent
Control Policy	Control policy can be accessed.	Control policy cannot be accessed.
Input Provider	It does not provide any inputs to Jenkins.	It is as an input provider to Rundeck.
Output	Organization of output is very well done.	Output is not in organized manner.
Running	It runs both pre-defined jobs and surprise commands.	It runs only pre-defined jobs.
Usage	It is easy to use.	It is not easy to use when compared to Rundeck.
Plugins	It has 120+ plugins available.	It has 1800+ plugins available.
Community Support	It has a smaller community support.	It has a very strong community support.

Conclusion

Generally, both Rundeck and Jenkins are often used together by operations and development team. As, Jenkins is in the market from a very long time and is a great CI/CD tool, it is more preferred by the organizations but Rundeck is also getting preference in many terms by the firms. Organizations can choose the tool according to their requirement.