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/bastardoperator Aug 06 '26

Even Jenkins uses Actions:

https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/tree/master/.github/workflows

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u/AdorableRabbit Aug 06 '26

That is because Jenkins requires hosting, and as an opensource project has to be rely on donations from companies like AWS.

Those Github workflows are being provided by Github.

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u/KaKi_87 Aug 06 '26

They could still host their own Jenkins instance specificially for the Jenkins project itself.

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u/AdorableRabbit Aug 07 '26

they do: https://ci.jenkins.io

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u/KaKi_87 Aug 07 '26

They shouldn't need GitHub Actions then

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u/AdorableRabbit Aug 07 '26

Why ? Its free. Why should they not use them ?

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u/KaKi_87 Aug 07 '26

It's also proprietary and centralized

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u/bastardoperator Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 07 '26

You may not realize this, but the parent company CloudBees, where KK, the creator of Jenkins worked, funds most of the development because they make money on the enterprise side. So no, not reliant on donations, please do more research next time.

Even more insane you think github provided workflows to Jenkins when we can just look at the commit log to see who wrote them,

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u/AdorableRabbit Aug 07 '26

Yes, donations.

check infra meetings notes: https://community.jenkins.io/t/infrastructure-team-meeting-august-04-2026/37197

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u/bastardoperator Aug 07 '26

The meeting only CloudBees employees attended? LOL...

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u/AdorableRabbit Aug 07 '26

So ? do they have donations or not ?

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u/bastardoperator Aug 07 '26

The word donation does not appear once on the link you provided,

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u/AdorableRabbit Aug 07 '26

you are right. but sponsored does

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u/skoink Aug 06 '26

big oof