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Discussion on: Achieving Continuous Integration and Deployment with Jenkins

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Florent Bonamis

Why are you still using Jenkins and not pipelines?

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Jan Küster 🔥

Which pipelines to you refer to? Azure? Bitbucket? Gitlab?

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Florent Bonamis

Azure, Bitbucket the idea is the same.. No?

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Jan Küster 🔥

I assume that companies use Jenkins to "own" the service, while many CI/CD services are cloud based. These services are also available as on-premise but even there they are not equal. They have different license models, pricing models and openness philosophy. Jenkins is free, easy to setup, open and has proven for a long time to be a solid solution for custom CI/CD. Unless your are working entirely open-source this is still the way to go for many companies.

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Vitaly Karasik

I like and use Jenkins.
I read Florent's question as "why you're not using Jenkins pipelines"? I.e. why freestyle job and on pipeline job?

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Umair Ghazi

You can build pipelines using Jenkins. I work for a huge enterprise and we have pipelines for all software releases built on top of Jenkins. You'll be surprised with the things you can do with Jenkins.