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I've used Jenkins in a few places, right back from when it was Hudson. Back then I was amazed at the concept of CI in general so it was pretty great. Over the
by redact207 7y ago
I've used Jenkins in a few places, right back from when it was Hudson. Back then I was amazed at the concept of CI in general so it was pretty great.
Over the years I've worked with most of the major players, most recently Gitlab CI. The one thing that makes it hard to go back to Jenkins is the poor quality of the plugin ecosystem. So many are abandoned or buggy that any upgrade comes with a breath and a prayer.
I'm probably gone for good. Appreciate everything they did for the industry but there are more robust choices around.
- lnsp 7y agoIn my experience most plugins were actually pretty ok-ish, but just maintaining the Jenkins installation itself was a horror job. Every once in a while a bad dependency upgrade would crash the entire installation – my only option was to go through the crash logs (basically 100+ lines stack traces) to find out which plugin was responsible and roll back this specific change.
- sytse 7y agoWhat can you do with Jenkins and not GitLab CI that made you go back to Jenkins?
- mcny 7y ago> The one thing that makes it hard to go back to Jenkins is the poor quality of the plugin ecosystem. I don't think they went back to Jenkins.