Continuous Integration

Harness CI is an enterprise–grade, cloud native CI product. It’s designed for developer self-service while enabling DevOps and Platform engineers to extend granular and customized governance at scale.
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CloudBees

Cloudbees Enterprise is an end-to-end automated software delivery system that allows companies to balance governance & developer freedom.

Company size
Company size

501+

Founded
Founded

2010

Funding
Funding

121.2m

Cloudbees is categorized as:
Continuous Integration

What is the difference between Harness CI Vs. CloudBees?

CloudBees vs Harness CI | Harness

Updated

November 30, 2023

  • Open Source Version
  • GitHub Stars
  • Self-Service (Simple)
  • No Scripting Required
  • Container & Cloud-Native
  • Traditional App Support
  • GitOps (Pipelines as Code)
  • Any Source Code Manager
  • Containerized Pipelines
  • Containerized Plugins
  • Secrets Management
  • Command Line Interface
  • Scalability (Required Infra)
  • Admin & Maintenance
  • Total Cost of Ownership
  • Pricing

Free & Paid

24800

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Vault/KMS/3rd

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Lightweight

<yes><yes>.25 FTE

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<yes><yes> Per User

Free & Paid

500

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Heavyweight

<no><no> 2-5 FTE

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<yes><yes> Free

Features
Harness CI
CloudBees
Product Type

<yes><yes> SaaS, Hybrid, and On-Premises

With Harness you can choose between using Harness Cloud (Harness hosted builds), using a SaaS platform with self-hosted build environment, or a fully self-hosted solution

<yes><yes> SaaS, Hybrid, and On-Premises

With Harness you can choose between using Harness Cloud (Harness hosted builds), using a SaaS platform with self-hosted build environment, or a fully self-hosted solution

<with><with> Self-Managed only

CloudBees CI is fully self-hosted

<with><with> Self-Managed only

CloudBees CI is fully self-hosted

Harness CCM

<yes><yes> SaaS, Hybrid, and On-Premises

With Harness you can choose between using Harness Cloud (Harness hosted builds), using a SaaS platform with self-hosted build environment, or a fully self-hosted solution

Turbonomics

<with><with> Self-Managed only

CloudBees CI is fully self-hosted

Architecture

<yes><yes> Cloud-Native

Harness CI offer modern Cloud-Native enterprise-ready CI solution

<with><with> Based on Jenkins

CloudBees CI is based on Jenkins, a traditional automation server, carrying many downsides of the Grandfather of CI such as security vulnerabilities, heavily scripted pipelines, etc.

Harness CCM
Turbonomics
Traditional App Support

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

Harness CCM

<yes><yes>

Turbonomics
Cloud-native App Support

<yes><yes>

<yes><yes>

Harness CCM
Turbonomics
Pipeline Syntax & Complexity

Declarative Yaml

Declarative, readable and easy to use yaml syntax that enabled any developer to create and maintain pipelines.

Declarative Yaml

Declarative, readable and easy to use yaml syntax that enabled any developer to create and maintain pipelines.

<with><with> Scripted (most common)

While declarative yaml is available, most users use Groovy-based domain specific languages with complex scripting, and use scripted templates.

<with><with> Scripted (most common)

While declarative yaml is available, most users use Groovy-based domain specific languages with complex scripting, and use scripted templates.

Harness CCM

Declarative Yaml

Declarative, readable and easy to use yaml syntax that enabled any developer to create and maintain pipelines.

Turbonomics

<with><with> Scripted (most common)

While declarative yaml is available, most users use Groovy-based domain specific languages with complex scripting, and use scripted templates.

Pipeline Visual Editor

<yes><yes> Built in Visual Editor

Built-in visual editor that is fully integrated with Git, allowing anyone to easily author pipelines.

<no><no> Inactive Blue Ocean Plugin

Pipelines are typically defined in a file in a source repository, and edited as text. There is a community project Blue Ocean that provides limited visualization but is no longer maintained.

Harness CCM
Turbonomics
Pipeline YAML Editor with Auto complete and Schema Validation

<yes><yes> Built in YAML Editor

IDE-like built-in yaml editor with auto-complete and schema validation, makes it easy to author pipeline as code. The editor is fully integrated with Git

<no><no>

Harness CCM
Turbonomics
Container-based plugins support

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

Harness CCM
Turbonomics
Integrations

<yes><yes> Multiple types of Community plugin

Harness allows you to leverage many types of community plugins: Drone plugins, Github Actions and Bitrise integration

<with><with> Community + Proprietary plugins

CloudBees CI includes proprietary plugins designed for large organizations, and supports Jenkins Community plugins.

Harness CCM
Turbonomics
Tests Intelligence (speed optimization)

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

Harness CCM
Turbonomics
Automatic Tests Splitting (speed optimization)

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

Harness CCM
Turbonomics
Cache Intelligence (speed optimization)

<yes><yes>

<no><no>

Harness CCM
Turbonomics
Policy as Code (OPA)

<yes><yes> Native and simple

Open Policy Agent (OPA) based pipeline policies integrated in the platform, allowing you to meet security needs

<yes><yes> Native and Simple

Open Policy Agent (OPA) based pipeline policies integrated in the platform, allowing you to meet security needs

<no><no> with scripted pipelines

Scripted pipelines are dynamic in nature, making it challenging to set pipeline policies.

<no><no> with scripted pipelines

Scripted pipelines are dynamic in nature, making it challenging to set pipeline policies.

Harness CCM

<yes><yes> Native and Simple

Open Policy Agent (OPA) based pipeline policies integrated in the platform, allowing you to meet security needs

Turbonomics

<no><no> with scripted pipelines

Scripted pipelines are dynamic in nature, making it challenging to set pipeline policies.

Templates Library

Flexible & Intuitive

Flexible & Intuitive

<with><with> Limited and complex

<with><with> Limited & Complex

Harness CCM

Flexible & Intuitive

Turbonomics

<with><with> Limited & Complex

Licensing Model

Free & Paid

Harness CI is licensed per developer. Credits for Harness hosted builds are available as add-on.

Free & Paid

Harness CI is licensed per developer. Credits for Harness hosted builds are available as add-on.

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Paid

<with><with> Paid

Harness CCM

Free & Paid

Harness CI is licensed per developer. Credits for Harness hosted builds are available as add-on.

Turbonomics

<with><with> Paid

Role Based Access (RBAC)

<yes><yes>

Native and Simple

<yes><yes> Native and Simple

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Complex Configuration

<with><with> Complex Configuration

Harness CCM

<yes><yes> Native and Simple

Turbonomics

<with><with> Complex Configuration

Secrets Management

<yes><yes>

Native and simple

<yes><yes> Native and Simple

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Complex configuration

<with><with> Complex Configuration

Harness CCM

<yes><yes> Native and Simple

Turbonomics

<with><with> Complex Configuration

Upgrade & Maintenance

<yes><yes> Low efforts (if any)

Our SaaS platform take this burden of the customer, while upgrading our self-managed solution require low efforts

<yes><yes> Low efforts (if any)

Our SaaS platform take this burden of the customer, while upgrading our self-managed solution require low efforts

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Efforts extensive

<with><with> Efforts intensive

Harness CCM

<yes><yes> Low efforts (if any)

Our SaaS platform take this burden of the customer, while upgrading our self-managed solution require low efforts

Turbonomics

<with><with> Efforts intensive

24/7 Expert Support

<yes><yes>

with paid plans

<yes><yes>

Harness CCM
Turbonomics
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