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by ljackman 2601 days ago
My experience of Bamboo has included:

* Broken base Ubuntu images being recommended by Atlassian as the default for agent Image configuration, only to be fixed to a usable state months later;

* Being generally years behind other CI tools, even the traditional ones;

* Data exports corrupting themselves despite apparently succeeding, blocking migrations after upgrades or server changes;

* The official documentation somewhere recommending copying across password hashes directly for setting up new admin for a migration, but I can't find this anymore so they've hopefully improved the process and documentation for this;

* A bug in an earlier version in which a strange combination of error cases in an Elastic Bamboo image configuration could spam EC2 instances in a constant loop, which we thankfully spotted before it ate through our AWS bill;

* No clear messaging from Atlassian about how the future of Bamboo compares to Pipelines. The official line seems to be that Bamboo is for highly custom setups who want to host their CI themselves, but you get the impression from to the slow pace of development that they're slowly dropping it in favour of Pipelines. I'd rather they be honest about it if that is the case.

Those are just the problems I can think of from the top of my head, anyway.