Is Jenkins still the king?

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  • drone

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  • A lot of people on reddit seem to recommend gitlab, or drone.io, but if you get on indeed and search for jobs there are tens of thousands of posts looking for people who know Jenkins and only a tiny fraction of job listings interested in any other ci framework. Is it worth investing time into anything else? It's my decision and while the other options seem more friendly I don't see any point in learning them if I'm not going to be able to use them in the future.

  • pipeline

    A cloud-native Pipeline resource.

  • If you want a step up, I would recommend trying out Tekton Pipelines. It’s a very popular ci tool, and it runs on Kubernetes. Yes, this would involve setting up a Kubernetes cluster but please don’t run for the hills! You can setup a Kubernetes cluster and install Tekton on top of it with minimal setup using minikube (see here. This would be a great joint exercise as it will give you a bit of Kubernetes understanding alongside it, and the mechanisms of Tekton are a little trickier than GitHub actions imo. It’s all much the same though.

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  • Most all of those things are possible with Argo Workflows or Tekton with very great effort. But a sustainable system with all the features built-in.

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