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VectorLock · 7 years ago

Last place I was at had their unmanaged Jenkins servers get compromised and used to run crypto miners.

jennbriden · 7 years ago

Were they using an older version of Jenkins on the public internet? There's been a randomized GUID applied to the initial Jenkins admin password, which you can only access if you have direct access to the Jenkins install. I think this was added in 2016.

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stabbles · 7 years ago

Jenkins's plugin manager is absolutely terrible.

If you're stuck on an older version of Jenkins, you better not click the "refresh" button in the plugin management page, cause otherwise the page is just filled with red warnings saying that the latest version of each plugin is incompatible or has dependencies that are incompatible with your current Jenkins version.

There is afaik no way to install the last plugin that was compatible with your version of Jenkins.

jennbriden · 7 years ago

Check this out, too. Free forever: https://www.cloudbees.com/products/cloudbees-jenkins-distrib.... We have included Beekeeper, which is an implementation of the plugin manager that provides a list of known-compatible, recommended plugins that CloudBees verifies and tests with each long-term support release of Jenkins.

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majkinetor · 7 years ago

Gitlab is awesome, its impressive what you get for free. Runners are nice, can run in powershell, bash, docker, vm , you name it.

The main problem with runner is that you cant easily execute build script on the host. Exec command isn't very useful and AFAIK deprecated.

jennbriden · 7 years ago

CodeShip is also a SaaS and is, "Forever free: You can use up to 100 builds per month for free, with unlimited projects and unlimited team members."

We are also working at CloudBees to have CodeShip support the emerging Jenkins X Pipeline syntax (YAML that mirrors the functionality of the Jenkins Pipeline). This syntax was based on the Tekton project, driven by the Continuous Delivery Foundation and significantly influenced by Jenkins developers like Andrew Bayer and Devin Nusbaum and by their PM, Nofar Bluestein.

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jennbriden · 7 years ago

Hello, I see a lot of great feedback in this post. I am a product manager working at CloudBees, the primary corporate sponsor of Jenkins. Jenkins is now in the Continuous Delivery Foundation as well.

While it is easy to bash on an inanimate object, there are some very dedicated and empathetic people who care deeply about the project. Some of those people do this work in their off-hours and some to this work as part of their daily work activities AND also in their off hours.

In that spirit, we want to make Jenkins better and created a separate group at CloudBees in the Product and Engineering teams late last year. They focus on open source work for Jenkins and on some proprietary things for CloudBees Core (built on Jenkins). We also have a dedicated user experience/product designer who started working on the project a few months ago. One of the first things he and I worked on was creating a curated, tailored version of Jenkins via the CloudBees Jenkins Distribution. This distribution will focus more and more over time on a guided workflow for continuous integration and delivery with Jenkins. These patterns will also be shared with open source Jenkins - some through direct contributions and others through suggestions (better plugin categorization, documentation, etc.).

Please use this comment thread to share your constructive, honest feedback about how we can improve Jenkins.