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There are technologies that are build using COD - consultant oriented development. That is one of the principals is that only a trained consultant would be able to configure it and that would require knowledge impossible to find in freely available documentation. It also needs multitude of gotchas that couldn't be solved using common sense. Jenkins I believe is one of such tools. We have completely moved away from it.

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I guess rather than having to deal with the agony to move away from a sufficiently large and complex Jenkins setup, people rather delude themselves in that its actually good software.

Just the amount of obtuse setup that thing requires is crazy and always ends in a mess. I have no idea why there seem to be so many people praising that thing in this thread. I don't fault Jenkins though, its just old obsolete software that should be replaced.

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