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Not saying it’s perfect, but every job I’ve been at they’re migrating away from Jenkins. And they never have a reason to do so other than shiny new toy. Jenkins has it’s own problems, but I personally think it’s litterally decades ahead of github actions.

I do like runners better than the default jenkins run baremetal on the server, however the runners are too blackbox. I wish there was a debug toggle on runners. Pause at step, then provide a console into the runner. Some runs litterally take hours, so adding some debug output, and rerunning makes troubleshooting tedious.

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dublet@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

And they never have a reason to do so other than shiny new toy.

Security. Jenkins has issues with every other plugin being a backdoor or version having some vulnerability.

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- yaroto98@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  And the Actions in the marketplace aren’t?
  
  My employers have only allowed a very small subset of each. It’s super frustrating having to reinvent the wheel constantly.
  
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  - tal@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I wonder if problems could be mostly avoided by running potentially-unsafe code in a container without network access.
    
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namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’ve found the edit/test/debug loop in Jenkins to be much faster than Github Actions. It was quite a refreshing change when I made that transition.

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- yaroto98@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yep, I think the only thing github actions has over jenkins is built in versioning. I wish in jenkins I could edit a pipeline and easily roll it back. Or even better have tags so if I break something the team can just use the previous tag while I figure it out.
  
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  - namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Interesting. Were you using a Jenkinsfile? I’m not sure I completely understand your use case, but using a Jenkinsfile would mean that your entire pipeline would be defined in a file in source control, so you could roll it back if you made a change that didn’t work quite right. Seems to be what your looking for if I’m understanding what you’re looking for.
    
    www.jenkins.io/doc/book/pipeline/jenkinsfile/
    
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moonpiedumplings@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
have you looked at solutions which emulate github actions locally?

github.com/nektos/act this is one of them but I think I’ve seen one more.

Github actions also has self hosted runners: docs.github.com/en/actions/…/self-hosted-runners

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- dublet@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Never found act useful. Where I work, we have our own self hosted instance, including self hosted runners and it doesn’t really improve the situation WRT debugging an Action.
  
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