love and hate with Jenkins
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1 min readApr 16, 2020
Jenkins is a wonderful CI tool, and it is wonderful because:
- it is free and open source
- it has a rich pool of plugins for almost all the common use cases
- Blue Ocean (if you fancy better UI)
- lot of deployment options (windows, Linux, Mac, container, etc)
- if you are using it for business, yeah, it is a common skill set among developers
what I don’t like about Jenkins:
- security seems an afterthoughts in Jenkins world
- poor RBAC design
- no proper way to backup and restore jobs
- I hate the text field editor for pipeline
- configuration menu is a bit hard to navigate
- poor UI