Jenkins Is Getting Old

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Post by zdw » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 6:38 PM UTC

Jenkins Is Getting Old
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Post by Cedricgc » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 6:58 PM UTC

https://outline.com/VvVhg6

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Post by rjeli » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 6:59 PM UTC

I’d never used Jenkins before, a few weeks ago I needed to do some CI that was more complicated than just pytest or whatever. Installed jenkins, put together a dockerfile, connected the github hooks and It Just Works. I’m a happy customer

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Post by js2 » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 7:00 PM UTC

Another container based option is Screwdriver, which started as a Yahoo in-house solution built on top of Jenkins. But it is now fully open source and no longer makes use of Jenkins in any way:

http://screwdriver.cd/

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Post by 0xdeadbeefbabe » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 7:02 PM UTC

Is buildbot old too? I sure enjoyed the flexibility. https://buildbot.net/

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Post by durnygbur » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 7:04 PM UTC

We need SPA CI in Angular, NgRx, and with Material Design:) /s

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 7:05 PM UTC

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Post by bovermyer » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 7:08 PM UTC

The most interesting part of this is the very last paragraph.

There really isn't a good self-hosted solution for build metadata/metrics, unless you write something yourself. It would be interesting to see a GUI dashboard for Drone/whatever builds and pipelines.

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Post by hardwaresofton » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 7:08 PM UTC

Disclaimer: I'm pretty biased towards Gitlab -- write about the things you can do it from time to time and they gave me some free swag once.

Best CI I've ever used is Gitlab CI[0]. The runner is completely open source[1] and you can use your own runner with your gitlab.com (or local instance) projects -- set it up in an autoscaling group[2] for savings.

I run https://runnerrental.club but Gitlab also recently released the ability to pay for minutes in 11.8 [3], so my product is more-or-less dead in the water but I don't mind since Gitlab is such an excellent tool, I'm glad to see them fill the need.

But back to Gitlab CI -- the YAML configuration documentation[4] is pretty fantastic -- Most easy things are easy and hard things are possible. I suspect that one could run an entire startup like circleci/travis/drone based on just the software that Gitlab has open sourced and made available already.

[0]: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/

[1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner

[2]: https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/configuration/runner_autoscal...

[3]: https://about.gitlab.com/2019/04/22/gitlab-11-10-released/#p...

[4]: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/

Re: Jenkins Is Getting Old

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Post by littleweep » Mon, Apr 29, 2019, 7:09 PM UTC

I think a better headline would have been something more like "Jenkins doesn't have the features I require". There are plenty of examples of older pieces of software or older languages that still work perfectly fine today.