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Every job should be a few simple commands or a python script or something I can run locally. This simplifies reproducing and debugging issues caught by CI -- there's nothing worse than wasting time trying to reproduce what happened.
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Jetbrains is among the very few companies I’ll trust for the time being
"For the time being" is an understatement. The company has been around for 20+ years, and while I haven't used TeamCity, if it is anything like their other products, you can be certain it is built with a high level of attention to detail and that that won't change anytime soon. It is one of the few companies left I license stuff from.
Jenkins is not perfect by any means, but I can say it is much better than existing solutions (taking pros and cons after trying and using many of them). Sure, it doesn't have fancy UI or flying buttons, nor is it rust/PWA/react/whatever-rage-is-these-days, but it does its job - it works, is free, and has been very well-maintained for ages. Download a single file and run it. Want to extend it? There is a plugin for ev…
Tools need to be boring and get out of my way - something "modern" tooling forgets since everyone's paycheck depends on forgetting that.
The kubernetes plug-in for Jenkins works well for us, and as the checkout/clone happens in the pod you don’t have the workspace bind mount problem. We are using docker-in-docker at the moment but looking at buildah. We do parallel windows container builds as well. Jenkins is a bit like Perl IMO: there are ways to use it that avoid the majority of its sharp edges (eg putting logic in bash and just call bash, avoid gro…
You can also run a "less privileged" container with all the features of Docker by using rootless buildkit in Kubernetes. Here are some examples:
https://github.com/moby/buildkit/tree/master/examples/kubern...
https://github.com/moby/buildkit/blob/master/examples/kubern...
It's also possible to run dedicated buildkitd workers and connect to them remotely.
Edit, forgot to add that I recently interviewed a bunch of candidates for a high paying job at a ai hardware company and every one of those candidates stated they worked on or near a project that involved moving from Jenkins to Gitlab CI.
Avoid Jenkins, and if you can, try https://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity "TeamCity Professional is free – even for commercial use – and has no limitations on features, number of users, or build time. It allows you to configure up to 100 builds and run up to 3 builds in parallel, which is more than enough for most projects"
Jenkins is not perfect by any means, but I can say it is much better than existing solutions (taking pros and cons after trying and using many of them). Sure, it doesn't have fancy UI or flying buttons, nor is it rust/PWA/react/whatever-rage-is-these-days, but it does its job - it works, is free, and has been very well-maintained for ages. Download a single file and run it. Want to extend it? There is a plugin for ev…
Avoid Jenkins, and if you can, try https://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity "TeamCity Professional is free – even for commercial use – and has no limitations on features, number of users, or build time. It allows you to configure up to 100 builds and run up to 3 builds in parallel, which is more than enough for most projects"
> TeamCity Professional is free – even for commercial use – and has no limitations on features, number of users, or build time. Yeah, no. There's obviously gonna be a catch in the future.
I would recommend TeamCity to everyone, it's awesome.
Avoid Jenkins, and if you can, try https://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity "TeamCity Professional is free – even for commercial use – and has no limitations on features, number of users, or build time. It allows you to configure up to 100 builds and run up to 3 builds in parallel, which is more than enough for most projects"
> TeamCity Professional is free – even for commercial use – and has no limitations on features, number of users, or build time. Yeah, no. There's obviously gonna be a catch in the future.
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Jetbrains is among the very few companies I’ll trust for the time being
Same here. Although I am super nervous that they will either cash out by going public or selling to some investor. That will be the end of it.
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-18/czech-sta...