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CloudBees vs GitHub Actions: Manage releases across tools

Keep building and deploying with GitHub Actions. CloudBees Unify connects your existing CI workflows with shared delivery insights, security visibility, and coordinated releases across applications. Control software delivery without replacing the tools your teams already use.

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What CloudBees adds beyond GitHub Actions

Cloudbees

CloudBees

  • Shared visibility across CI tools.

    View connected GitHub Actions and Jenkins® runs in CloudBees Unify, which makes each change, human or AI, visible, auditable, and accountable. Keep execution in the tools your teams already use.

  • Release coordination across applications.

    CloudBees Unify coordinates multi-component releases with staged workflows and release manifests. CloudBees CD/RO manages application dependencies, release schedules, and approval gates when several teams need to ship together.

  • Centralized Jenkins management.

    CloudBees CI gives platform teams centralized management across Jenkins controllers, with shared configuration and granular access controls. Standardize Jenkins administration while keeping the pipelines your teams depend on. Add high availability and horizontal scaling, scoped to your environment, plus least-privilege access for people, service accounts, and coding agents.

GitHub Actions

Github Actions

  • Cross-tool reporting requires integration.

    GitHub Actions provides workflow metrics across GitHub repositories. Adding visibility into Jenkins runs requires another reporting layer or integrations.

  • Release coordination requires added workflow logic.

    GitHub Actions supports deployment environments and approval gates. Coordinating a release plan across applications takes additional workflow design or release-management tooling.

  • Jenkins has to be managed separately.

    GitHub Actions doesn’t provide centralized management for Jenkins controllers. Teams using both tools manage Jenkins configuration and access through Jenkins itself or a dedicated management solution.

Why teams choose CloudBees over GitHub Actions

| | Cloudbees | GitHub Actions | |----------------------------|-------------|------------| | CI build and test automation | yes | yes | | Shared visibility across GitHub Actions and Jenkins | yes | ⚠ Additional reporting or integrations | | Coordinated multi-component releases | yes | ⚠ Custom workflows or release tooling | | Security findings across connected scanning tools | yes | yes | | Centralized Jenkins controller management | yes | no | | Centrally managed Jenkins Configuration as Code | yes | no | | DORA reporting across connected delivery tools | yes | ⚠ Additional analytics or configuration | | Artifact and deployment inventory across GitHub Actions and Jenkins | yes | ⚠ Linked-artifact view for GitHub Actions builds; additional integration for Jenkins | | Feature flags with user targeting | yes | no | | AI-driven test selection | yes | ⚠ Additional tooling |

*CloudBees capabilities depend on the products and integrations selected and configured. Smart Tests is a separate CloudBees offering. GitHub Actions can provide additional capabilities through third-party integrations.

Bring release oversight to
GitHub Actions and Jenkins®

Let your teams keep building in GitHub Actions and Jenkins. CloudBees brings delivery data together and adds release planning across applications, giving release managers a clearer view of dependencies and the evidence behind each release.

Build on your existing CI workflows

Connect GitHub Actions and Jenkins to CloudBees Unify for shared delivery visibility without replacing existing pipelines. Use CloudBees CI to standardize Jenkins configuration and management.

Coordinate releases across applications

Use CloudBees Unify to coordinate multi-component releases through staged workflows and release manifests. CloudBees CD/RO adds release scheduling and dependency management for teams coordinating complex deployments.

Connect security findings to delivery evidence

Bring security findings, test results, and release evidence together in CloudBees Unify through configured integrations. Track registered artifacts from their source and build context to the environments where they're deployed.

Get faster test feedback

CloudBees Smart Tests uses AI to identify tests relevant to code changes. Run a targeted subset within your CI workflow to shorten test runs and give developers feedback sooner. Selection is transparent, so you can see what ran, what was skipped, and why. Flaky tests are detected and can be quarantined, so a red build means something again.

“CloudBees brings a lot of experience to DevOps. They enable DZ BANK AG to model our environment in repeatable ways for running continuous integration and continuous delivery. We now have a clear view of the entire process: one that is secure, repeatable, and predictable.”
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Julius von Rosen
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Enterprise teams trust CloudBees to coordinate complex releases across the tools they already use.

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Frequently asked questions

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