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Curious why Jenkins over GitLab's CI/CD?

ryanmcdonough 6y ago
I’d imagine they were already using it with their prior SC setup and didn’t want to move source control and everything else at once.
- flatiron 6y ago
  Yep. We were svn using “beanstalk” when I joined our company and pushed for a git migration. But we already had Jenkins running with tons of stuff set up on cloud bees. Then they kicked us off for some reason (forgot why) so it started our own migration to AWS
  - sytse 6y ago
    If you are still considering moving CI from Jenkins to GitLab we're publicly testing a Jenkins Wrapper to make it more gradual to move https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/215675 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/215675
    - flatiron 6y ago
      Not sure how that would work with our double Jenkins (inside and outside) setup but I’ll check. Thanks!
      - sytse 6y ago
        Awesome! Feel free to comment in the linked issue if you want some help.
cgidriver 6y ago
Integration errors are hard to chase in Gitlab (For example: Something went wrong while creating your Kubernetes cluster Unexpected status; ROLLBACK_FAILED) - this does not give the user any information. Perhaps I could get some help here on this.
flatiron 6y ago
Familiarity mainly. We have a dual Jenkins setup (one internal one at our clients site) so we have a metric ton of Jenkins stuff from years and years of work. I can also write Jenkins pipelines in my sleep from doing it so often and have probably read about GitLab’s yaml format for a few hours. Maybe one day we think about getting rid of Jenkins but I am quite fond of it.
- unixhero 6y ago
  If anything upgrade from Jenkins to a proper workflow manager, such as Apache Airflow! Edit: I realize it might be more suitable for data pipelines than continuous integration.
  - flatiron 6y ago
    Can you sell me on it? Never heard of it.
    - unixhero 6y ago
      Let me go ahead and outsource that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHATHSB_450 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHATHSB_450 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eNiCLanXJY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eNiCLanXJY
orlovs 6y ago
When you have got a lot of things already ready written

I’d imagine they were already using it with their prior SC setup and didn’t want to move source control and everything else at once.

flatiron 6y ago
Yep. We were svn using “beanstalk” when I joined our company and pushed for a git migration. But we already had Jenkins running with tons of stuff set up on cloud bees. Then they kicked us off for some reason (forgot why) so it started our own migration to AWS
- sytse 6y ago
  If you are still considering moving CI from Jenkins to GitLab we're publicly testing a Jenkins Wrapper to make it more gradual to move https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/215675 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/215675
  - flatiron 6y ago
    Not sure how that would work with our double Jenkins (inside and outside) setup but I’ll check. Thanks!
    - sytse 6y ago
      Awesome! Feel free to comment in the linked issue if you want some help.

cgidriver 6y ago

Integration errors are hard to chase in Gitlab (For example: Something went wrong while creating your Kubernetes cluster Unexpected status; ROLLBACK_FAILED) - this does not give the user any information. Perhaps I could get some help here on this.

flatiron 6y ago

Familiarity mainly. We have a dual Jenkins setup (one internal one at our clients site) so we have a metric ton of Jenkins stuff from years and years of work. I can also write Jenkins pipelines in my sleep from doing it so often and have probably read about GitLab’s yaml format for a few hours. Maybe one day we think about getting rid of Jenkins but I am quite fond of it.

unixhero 6y ago
If anything upgrade from Jenkins to a proper workflow manager, such as Apache Airflow! Edit: I realize it might be more suitable for data pipelines than continuous integration.
- flatiron 6y ago
  Can you sell me on it? Never heard of it.
  - unixhero 6y ago
    Let me go ahead and outsource that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHATHSB_450 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHATHSB_450 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eNiCLanXJY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eNiCLanXJY

orlovs 6y ago

When you have got a lot of things already ready written