| ▲ | I Still Like Jenkins(til.andrew-quinn.me) |
| 4 points by hiAndrewQuinn 10 hours ago | 9 comments |
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| ▲ | immibis2 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| A GUI that lists all the available options is much more user-friendly than a YAML configuration file where you have to guess them or pore over documentation before starting, but even Jenkinsfile syntax looks better than YAML, and Groovy is a real (edit: realer) language that, in theory, can have things like syntax highlighting and auto-completion. |
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| ▲ | yepyoukno 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | Ugh! I knew someone would try to say groovy was a real language. I miss the good old days with bash scripts and cron. Why must so many diverging environments and tools mingle in our mental space. | | |
| ▲ | hiAndrewQuinn 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | You can always just split the difference and call your shell script with sh "./whatever.sh"`
if you want in a modern Jenkinsfile. It's really not that big of a deal to avoid Groovy if you truly cannot stand it.As for cron, that's also supported out of the box. triggers {
cron('0 0 * * *')
}
At that point Jenkins is mostly acting as a nice frontend to all those cronjobs and shell scripts, but at least it keeps records of all the logs etc. | | |
| ▲ | tomkarho 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It's all fun and shells until you start adding parameters especially when those parameters have quotemarks in them. Groovy can get pretty wild with the syntax. | |
| ▲ | yepyoukno 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Oh brother don’t think I don’t know how to “work around” anyone else’s favorite tool. I guess I should be happy it isn’t CA Unicenter. | | |
| ▲ | hiAndrewQuinn 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | See it how you wish; but shell script execution was part of Jenkins from day 1, to my knowledge, over 20 years ago now. It's a 'workaround' the same way walking upstairs is a workaround for an escalator, imo. | | |
| ▲ | yepyoukno 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Oh I know it! I was slighting Groovy when the old fashion way always worked just fine! Didn’t mean to draw it out as “one of those” battles. Cheers! |
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| ▲ | pestatije 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| cant read those snippets... need more contrast |
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