Jenkins

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “there is a push to move off of Jenkins as it is losing support from the third-party provider”

  NEGATIVE · Reddit · 2026-07-04

• “Our old jenkins hosts were largely forever instances with forever credentials that were just waiting to take down the org”

  NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-05-13

• “Jenkins is mostly acting as a nice frontend to all those cronjobs and shell scripts, but at least it keeps records of all the logs etc.”

  LUKEWARM · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-09

• “I kept steering us away from Jenkins as I'd experienced its pains at a previous role”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-03-24

• “Tried using Jenkins, but alas, a $5/m DO droplet is insufficient to run Jenkins.”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-02-09

• “Went from Jenkins/Conan/CMake to GH/Bazel with tons of stuff learned”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-02-09

• “I wish more applications would adopt the "H" option that Jenkins uses in it's cron notation”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-02-05

• “Jenkins, written in Java IIRC, was not able to run on that $5/m droplet even serving just a couple of users.”

  NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-02-02

• “My self-hosted Jenkins build server (old mini computer shoved on my book case) would run builds and produce the image artifact - those were the days...”

  POSITIVE · Hacker News · 2026-01-21

• “a self hosted bare bones jenkins server far easier to work with”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-01-14

• “huge pipelines of Jenkins plugins that did various things in various orders. It was a freaking nightmare. Never again.”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-01-14