Jenkins has persistent problems in my experience with reliability. We only ever really got shell scripts to work well with Jenkins at a previous place of employ

Jenkins has persistent problems in my experience with reliability. We only ever really got shell scripts to work well with Jenkins at a previous place of employment years ago. The API layer was hard to leverage properly (part of what I was getting at in my rant. Which is why I get why configuration has taken over a lot of these kinds of complex systems) I think a lot of this got fixed with Jenkins X because its underlying tech is just docker images. There again though you're mostly managing complex configuration rather than dealing with an exposed API layer