Name: Bamboo
Rating: 4.1 (110 reviews)

Overview

Product Information on Bamboo

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Bamboo?

Bamboo is a software that automates the process of building, testing, and releasing applications. It integrates with version control systems and provides continuous integration and deployment capabilities. The software supports a wide range of build tools and programming languages, enabling teams to automate the compilation and testing of source code. Bamboo offers centralized management of builds and releases, configurable workflows, and environment provisioning. It addresses business challenges associated with manual build and release processes by streamlining pipelines, reducing errors, and improving visibility into the development lifecycle. Bamboo facilitates collaboration across development, testing, and operations teams, enhancing consistency and reliability in delivering software updates.

Overall experience with Bamboo

Programmer Analyst

Gov't/PS/ED 5,000 - 50,000 Employees, Education

FAVORABLE

“Bamboo Enhances Team Learning and Tracking of Coding Changes Over Time”

5.0

Jan 13, 2026

I've only been using Bamboo for a few projects for less than a year but it has been great at helping me collaborate with my team and learn from them. This is my first official experience with Bamboo in a professional setting. My team keeps things neat and clean and it makes a new team member like me better understand what's going on with our coding projects.

Engineering Engineer

50M - 250M USD, Hardware

CRITICAL

“Bamboo Delivers Code Driven Pipelines But Lacks Feature Flexibility and Build Options”

2.0

Jan 9, 2026

Bamboo is used for CI, it looks good but has a lot of limitations.

About Company

Company Description

Atlassian's mission is to unleash the potential of every team. We make agile & DevOps, IT service management and work management software to help teams organize, discuss, and complete shared work. Over 300,000 companies of all sizes worldwide rely on Atlassian to help their teams work better together and deliver quality results on time

Company Details

Company type

Public

Year Founded

2002

Head office location

Sydney, Australia

Number of employees

10001+

Website

http://www.atlassian.com/

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Bamboo Likes & Dislikes

It's easy to see/understand coding changes, a great collaboration tool, great to look at how things changed and why, and easy to keep track of what others have done in the past. We heavily use JIRA so having Bamboo is a great addition.

It supports code driven pipelines very well. Bamboo integration is cool and each build shows the Jira item the changeset is attached to.

like most for it's straightforward user0friendly UI

There hasn't been much that I dislike about Bamboo. As a new team member, it took me a bit to get used to everything but I am learning new things every day and everything makes sense so far. I don't have any real complaints or pain points from using it so far.

It does not support parameterized builds. Inheriting legacy projects in Bamboo is an issue because it does not support centralized build configurations. Bamboo only supports the Atlassian coverage tool. It is very inflexible and does not have a lot of features.

1) it's very expensive 2) lack SaaS cloud Service 3)less 3rd-party extensions

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Gov't/PS/Ed

Education

Review Source

Bamboo Enhances Team Learning and Tracking of Coding Changes Over Time

TECH SPECIALIST

1B-10B USD

Banking

Deep Atlassian Integration Valued But Lack Of Cloud Service Draws Criticism

4.0

Dec 30, 2025

We have been using Atlassian Bamboo for over 8 years for its 1) scalability for enterprise usages 2) very quick automatic pipeline setup 3) deep integration with existing Atlassian tools integration 4) automatic deployment/testing management

Technical Lead

<50M USD

IT Services

Seamless Integration of Bamboo With Atlassian Tools Enhances CI/CD Workflows

Feb 9, 2026

My experience with Bamboo has been excellent. I used Bamboo to build and deploy Java projects. We can see and trace logs of a build that failed because of any issue. We can also see new commits/ Jira tickets related to a particular build.

50M-1B USD

Hardware

Bamboo Delivers Code Driven Pipelines But Lacks Feature Flexibility and Build Options

IT Programmer

Retail

Leveraging Bamboo for Enhanced Team Synchronization and Development Monitoring

Jan 31, 2025

Bamboo serves as an effective Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery solution for teams who already work with Jira. Our team wants better control over branching in Bamboo because its combination with Jira makes deployments smooth.