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More like replace Atlassian Bamboo. I've had traumatic experiences with sleek CIs. To me it's like the Scratch "programming language". Good for beginners, and then you find yourself wanting to copy/paste your workflow or make any sort of involved change and having to rewrite everything in a Jenkinsfile.

Now, I'd like to be wrong. But I doubt a UI can get close to plain text for this kind of thing, it's just very difficult for software to translate boxes into code.

Until then, there's a reason our tooling is text-based to this day.

It will apparently also be configurable using static files written in HCL (Terraform syntax).

Yes, and/or make the power of existing CI systems more accessible.

And also to create a shared library of actions. Perhaps they will eventually go for creating a common standard for workflow actions across platforms.

I think the problem is it can't replace Travis etc. if you are trying to use it for open source projects, since it only works for private repos.

Only during the beta phase.

From what was shown, it could definitely replace some of those use-cases.