#release-engineering - January 2020

Hey does anyone have any examples of production/dev/staging environments integrated with terraform and orchestrated by a Jenkins pipeline?

any GoCD users here?

We have been using travisci pro for years, and pay a whopping 5k a year for 10 concurrent builds. The cost or amount of builds is not really the issue though. It is the power of the underlying machines. Our builds flows are optimised to the max, but we have for example a 10 minute create-react-app build (webpack) which cannot be sped up in any way, except bigger CPU’s. 2 min on my top spec mbp vs 12 minutes on travis. But they do not have plans with faster machines, so not really an option. How are you all handling these kinds of problems?

so I’m using : https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-ecs-atlantis and I’m going trough the setup but

has anybody built a Codefresh pipeline for a Maven project that uses https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/jib ?

I spent some time this weekend getting caught up on the state of the "Jenkins" ecosystem (not Jenkins X)

Here's my braindump: https://cloudposse.com/devops/jenkins-pros-cons-2020/

I think there are many here with more experience. Let me know if I got anything wrong or something else I should add!

@Andrew Roth ☝️

@Michal Matyjek @Steve Boardwell

That's a nice writeup. I found it incredibly painful to develop and debug groovy scripts in Jenkins, bt perhaps it is better as of late. We have been making a push on Concourse, and you'd have to pull me kicking and screaming to go back at this point.

You're missing the #1 pro that makes Jenkins still the most used tool in its space: price.

It certainly has its barnacles, and I'm not defending it, but it's pretty damn good for being free.

While I am still supprting Jenkins and groovy scripts, I am in transition of moving a lot of stuff over on Drone CI (and yeah its free as well)