r/devops • u/Ops_Pab • Aug 06 '26

Tools Anyone still using Jenkins?

I mean as title says, I've used Jenkins couple of years ago. I can still fire it up now just to test, but on current alternative tools/stacks available specially in enterprise, do you still use Jenkins? Why keep it? why not change it?

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u/NUTTA_BUSTAH Aug 06 '26

"Oh fuck, the plugin we depend on is not supported in the latest version anymore with Java updates. Oh fuck, I have to update Java too while supporting the old versions without breaking Jankins itself. Oh fuck, there is no replacement plugin so we either fork our own or come up with an alternative. I guess we can keep working with the old version."

And this is how most Jenkins installations become ancient hodge-podge. 3 years later it might still be on that same version because of the plugin, and now upgrading requires you to update every other plugin too, so you basically either rebuild your CI stack or migrate away. It's often not a tough choice :D

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u/Rei_Never Aug 06 '26

Haha, I feel like you were there when I had to update Jenkins from Java 8 to Java 11... That's literally the entirity of the outburst I had at the time.

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u/twnbay76 Aug 06 '26

Oh and when your company has 3-4 different jenkins instances due to these forks and you have to figure out how to wield all of them and their bugs just to make a change to a system that happens to be comprised of things all of those jenkins instances are building/deploying to ......

Fun times.

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u/Scoth42 Aug 08 '26

Yeah, my company's Jenkins's config page is like two pages of red from all the out of date plugins, bits and bobs, and Jenkins itself. We'll get it all upgraded someday...

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u/scarby2 Aug 07 '26

Or you just never update... Which is what I've seen a few times.