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Jenkins for CI Is Dead: Why Do People Hate It and What’s the Alternative?

If you visit the project’s landing page, it informs you that Jenkins is the leading open-source automation server, with hundreds of plugins to support building, deploying, and automating any project.

On the contrary, the hundreds of plugins it provides and you need to set up if you want to get anything done make the project both versatile and complex as hell. In this story, we see why Jenkins is not the way to go if you want to build a Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline in 2021 and what’s the alternative.

If you are in a similar position, I can understand why you are not ready to give it up just yet.

However, this is not a tutorial on how to build and push Docker images with Jenkins.