Jenkins

Best software of devops engineers

주석: I have used jenkins and I'm still using jenkins for managing pipelines and deploying services. I feel this is one of the top software that can be used by devops engineers.

장점:

Jenkins allow us to integrate it with bitbucket or github and manage our pipeline. There are a lot of other plugins which we can integrate with jenkins. Jenkins also helps in automating the process of building the image and deploying services.

단점:

For a new user, Jenkins UI might be confusing. It will take some time to understand the functionalities. And sometimes we face some issue while integrating the plugins.

Past its best

장점:

In its time, Jenkins was an outstanding tool. It was my go to for automation or all kinds, not just continuous integration. I have successfully delivered several projects with it. Jenkinsfiles and JCASC have been solid attempts to improve the Jenkins experience over the years.

단점:

Jenkins is hard to operate, gives you fewer and fewer options for well-maintained plugins and it's relatively easy to break pipelines in hard to understand ways. I would not recommend using Jenkins now that there are so many better options. I have spent many hours in an organisation where it was the preferred tool, trying to make pipelines more reliable, build custom plugins and meet security standards. It can be done but other products have so much of that prebuilt, why spend the time!

bad UI but good functionality

주석: In general we use jenkins often, and it deploys our software without too much trouble

장점:

Jenkins does what it needs to do. If the dev-ops team sets it up correctly the builds occur as expected.

단점:

Jenkins has a really outdated UI, it is kind of hard to navigate and know where everything is, but once you get used to it it is fine.

Versatile program with important features

주석: An experience of average satisfaction, we did not like that we had to spend extra budget to hire a new software that would bring together the capabilities that Jenkins could not contain enough for our team to feel comfortable, but on the other hand we do accept that it has improvement systems that They improved our developed software.

장점:

A program that in the team generated high expectations for generating build automation, where Jenkins can be configured to automatically execute software builds every time changes are made to the source code, this ensures that any new code integration is tested and verified instantly, making it easy to detect and fix early errors or compatibility issues.

단점:

Under support for Microservices, which in our case and given that our company Google operates at large scale, often with architectures based on microservices, Jenkins could not handle multiple projects and microservices simultaneously, not allowing independent and specific builds and deployments as required. We needed, in this sense, we had to use a program similar and added to the one we already had.

Jenkins Review

주석: I've been working for more than 7 years on Jenkins for CI, CD and also some automatic tasks

장점:

You can customize a lot of things and also create shared libraries and use JTE to simplify the work

단점:

You need to keep updating the versions and has a lot of security issues