I Still Like Jenkins

I Still Like Jenkins(til.andrew-quinn.me)

6 points by hiAndrewQuinn 9 days ago | 10 comments

mmarian 7 days ago |

I miss Jenkins too. A lot more flexible compared to GitHub Actions.

Also addresses the supply chain attack vector we've seeing recently, by design. You don't pull external dependencies on every CI/CD invocation; they're installed once, on the server. Realised this when I was writing my post on what you have to do to replicate this in a makeshift way in GitHub Actions: https://developerwithacat.com/blog/202604/github-actions-sup...

immibis2 9 days ago |

A GUI that lists all the available options is much more user-friendly than a YAML configuration file where you have to guess them or pore over documentation before starting, but even Jenkinsfile syntax looks better than YAML, and Groovy is a real (edit: realer) language that, in theory, can have things like syntax highlighting and auto-completion.

yepyoukno 8 days ago | |

Ugh!

I knew someone would try to say groovy was a real language.

I miss the good old days with bash scripts and cron.

Why must so many diverging environments and tools mingle in our mental space.

hiAndrewQuinn 8 days ago | | |

You can always just split the difference and call your shell script with

    sh "./whatever.sh"`

if you want in a modern Jenkinsfile. It's really not that big of a deal to avoid Groovy if you truly cannot stand it.

As for cron, that's also supported out of the box.

    triggers {
            cron('0 0 * * *')
        }

At that point Jenkins is mostly acting as a nice frontend to all those cronjobs and shell scripts, but at least it keeps records of all the logs etc.

pestatije 8 days ago |

cant read those snippets... need more contrast

hiAndrewQuinn 8 days ago | |

apologies, didn't test the layout on light mode - thanks for letting me know