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Jenkins: a job to check a Github organization’s public repositories list

Arseny Zinchenko on April 16, 2019

Proceeding with a Github repositories checker. To recall: the idea is to have such a check in case if somebody from developers accidentally will s...
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Dian Fay

Neat idea! Are you using Jenkins over cron/SystemD timers just to keep things centralized or is there another reason?

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Arseny Zinchenko

Jenkins used for a lot of things - build, deploy applications (both mobile Android/iOS and PHP for our backend).
Also, we have CloudFormation and Ansible jobs in there for AWS services provisioning, etc.

And I have just a dedicated folder in Jenkins with few cronjobs to be running to keep them in Jenkins instead of using some Linux host with usual cronjobs, like creating AWS EBS backups from a Docker with AWS CLI and so on (although our latest EBS backups are created using the AWS DLM.

So basically - Jenkins is also used as such a "management unit".