Yes it is harder than it should be - there is a project under way to try to make this config and plugin pain go away: https://jenkins.io/blog/2018/04/06/jenkins

Yes it is harder than it should be - there is a project under way to try to make this config and plugin pain go away: https://jenkins.io/blog/2018/04/06/jenkins-essentials/ https://jenkins.io/blog/2018/04/06/jenkins-essentials/ (not sure if that name will stick, will maybe just be Jenkins at some point in the future). Hopefully that will help one day, and be far more efficient use of time.