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When’s the last time you looked at or used Bitbucket?
Like a week ago? We’re currently migrating away from it as everyone hated it.
Now for the people who were operating Bitbucket, I'm sure it's a relief.
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I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't some plan to make all of GitHub's backend "legacy" and switch everyone to the dumpster fire that is Azure DevOps and if you thought GitHub Actions was bad...
When Microsoft bought GitHub they cancelled GitHubs own early CI effort and rebranded the existing Azure DevOps as GitHub Actions. The GitHub Actions runner source code is all dotnet. GitHub was a Ruby shop.
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Like a week ago? We’re currently migrating away from it as everyone hated it.
Do we work in the same company? That said, I really don't understand why everyone hates on Bitbucket. I really thought it was _fine_ from a user perspective. Now we're on GHE and I find it a sidegrade at best. Now for the people who were operating Bitbucket, I'm sure it's a relief.
This is making me feel quietly vindicated in pushing back on migrating our Jenkins/Ansible setup to GHA simply because corporate wanted the new shiny thing. Fortunately the "this will be a lot of work, i.e. cost" argument won. Mind you, CI does always involve a surprising amount of maintenance. Update churn is real. And Macs still are very much more fiddly to treat as "cattle" machines.
I get it's use, especially in large companies and I also get the culture leading up to it being widely used but I can't help but chuckle a bit about the problems we cause for ourselves in this industry.
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Jenkins! For the love of god don’t listen to this.
Always open to learning, what's wrong with Jenkins? It's a bit bloated, but it's free and works.
This stuff is a nightmare to manage, and with large code bases/products, you need a dedicated "devops" just to babysit the thing and avoid it becoming a liability for your devs.
I'm actually looking forward our migration to GHEC from on-prem just because Github Actions, as shitty as they are, are far less of an headache than Jenkins.
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> Their entire ecosystem is basically held up with duct tape and gets very little investment. That isn't gonna get better anytime soon. "GitHub Will Prioritize Migrating to Azure Over Feature Development" [1] [1] https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-a...
They barely maintain Azure pipeline tasks / actions as well. We had a critical outage because they deprecated Windows 2019 agents a month earlier than scheduled. MS support had the gall to both blame us for not migrating sooner, and refuse to escalate for 36 hours!
The initial banners and warning emails about it went out well ahead of the original EOL timeline; and again as the extended EOL drew close.
If you were caught off guard by the brownout period, it's your devops team that's to blame, not Microsoft; and Microsoft was absolutely right to blame you for not migrating sooner. They gave you an extra 6 months to do it because you should have had all this done back in the first half of the year.
(If you want to blame Microsoft for anything here, blame them for not having a comprehensive tool to identify all your windows-2019 pipelines and instead just relying on "just go look at the latest pipeline runs page and hope everything's run recently enough to be on that".)
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CircleCI made great steps the last few years, f.e. to better support proper DRY working, supporting OPA policies-as-code, VSCode extensions with "dry-run" options. For some examples of more advanced usecases take a look: https://circleci.com/blog/platform-toolkit/ Disclaimer: i work for CircleCI.
To be clear, I do think CircleCI is a better product than GHA. I just think there's a lot of air sucked out of the room by GHA being available 'for free' and out of the box. Also, honestly, I don't care about any of those features. The main thing I want is a CI system that is fast and customisable and that I don't have to spend a lot of time debugging. I think CircleCI is pretty decent in that regard (the "rerun with…