Bamboo Server and Data Center feature comparison
If you use Bamboo, you’ll have either a Bamboo Server or Bamboo Data Center license.
Your Bamboo license determines which features and infrastructure choices are available.
Feature comparison
Here’s a summary of what you get with each license.
Core | Server license | Data Center license |
|---|---|---|
| Building and testing Create multi-stage build plans to run your automated tests. | ✅ | ✅ |
| Jira integration Connect Jira and Bamboo to automatically link issues. | ✅ | ✅ |
| Bitbucket integration Connect Bitbucket and Bamboo to link builds with commits and trigger builds when committing to a repository. | ✅ | ✅ |
| Opsgenie integration Connect Opsgenie and Bamboo to inform about build statutes. | ✅ | ✅ |
| Bamboo Specs Manage Bamboo with Specs using Java and YAML. | ✅ | ✅ |
| IAM Role support for Elastic Agents Authenticate Elastic Bamboo with an EC2 instance profile. | ✅ | ✅ |
| Data Center Apps approval program App vendors can check if their apps are compatible with Bamboo Data Center. | ❌ | ✅ |
| Ephemeral agents Short-lived, single-purpose Kubernetes agents | ❌ | ✅ |
High availability and performance at scale | ||
| Clustering Run Bamboo on cold standby HA. | ❌ | ✅ |
| Seamless restart Ensures builds queue and progress consistency when Bamboo shuts down. | ❌ | ✅ |
| Improved build resilience Be sure that your builds are delivered when Bamboo shuts down. | ❌ | ✅ |
| Improved deployment resilience Be sure that your deployments are delivered when Bamboo shuts down. | ❌ | ✅ |
| Artifact delivery Ensure that artifacts are delivered when Bamboo shuts down during the build. | ❌ | ✅ |
| Rate limiting Configurable self-protection against performance drops. | ❌ | ✅ |
| SFTP artifact handling Reduce the load and disk usage on your Bamboo server by offloading your artifacts to a dedicated storage machine. | ✅ | ✅ |
User management | ||
| External user directories Store users in Active Directory, Crowd, Jira, or another LDAP directory. | ✅ | ✅ |
Project-level build resources Add and manage repositories and shared credentials on the project level without global admin help. | ❌ | ✅ |
| Support for single sign-on Support for SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, and Crowd single sign-on right out of the box. | ❌ | ✅ |
| OAuth 2 support for external applications Grant limited or full access to your Bamboo instance to an external app on behalf of a Bamboo user. | ✅ | ✅ |
Deployment options | ||
| Your own hardware Run Bamboo on your own physical servers, virtualized servers, or in a data center of your choice. | ✅ | ✅ |
| Kubernetes support Deploy Bamboo together with other Atlassian products on a Kubernetes cluster. | ❌ | ✅ |