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Re:Jenkins pipelines as YAML by kabes on Thursday July 19, 2018 @05:54AM (#17564963)
What's the difference between circle-CI yaml files with declarative jenkinsfiles (except from groovy vs yaml)?
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Re:Jenkins pipelines as YAML by KaiserPro on Thursday July 19, 2018 @06:03AM (#17565013)
a few things: 1) plugins, they routinely break, the API they provide breaks, functionality changes, or the API they rely on also changes. Its a mine field.

2) bootstrapping a _secure_ jenkins server to the point where its able to accept jobs is a monumental faff. (gitlab runner is far far more simple, if you want Uber free, circle CI if you don't mind paying)

3) its just so much _effort_

Jenkins was great compared to the field in 2010/1 (after it forked changed from alfred) ever since it's failed to move in the right direction.

It over complicated what is essentially a cron/at daemon with web gui.

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