The "goodness" of Jenkins for my use-case is that the service can be a kind of "sudo" for capabilities we don't want to spread around. That said, learning Yet

The "goodness" of Jenkins for my use-case is that the service can be a kind of "sudo" for capabilities we don't want to spread around. That said, learning Yet Another Language that only deals with a niche requirement is a total bore. If we can cook it down to executing some garden-variety bash in a special context, along with some spiffy pipeline visualization, that is enough.