I'm not at all ashamed, nor a single bit remorseful to comment on the fact that it took a catastrophic data loss for a team I once worked with to finally sit down and look at our CI/CD pipeline before deciding "Maybe jenkins is overkill for what we need".
Which was something I had been kvetching about for months and expressly warned, multiple times to our release manager as a point of concern given how quickly plugin vulnerabilities are reported (as someone comment on elsewhere in the thread).
The day finally came when someone from one of our other offices went to update some infrastructure as code repos, poof. Jenkins server gone. They didn't have a roll back plan, and to complete the trifecta, they somehow also killed all of the instance volume backups. An entire sprint was summarily dedicated to creating a new build pipeline, I had resumes out the door the next day.
This article hits so many of our pain points I joked to a current coworker who followed me out of that place that I wanted to print it and mail it to our former RM.
No clue. Didn't stick around long enough to find out, that moment was officially the last straw for me. There was a lot of hemming and hawing, I left and product, project and dev still hadn't made their minds up. Ops (where I lived) would give the team ideas and proposals, dev gatekept everything from tickets to the VCS.
This was one of those shops that hired people and gave them devops job titles, but demanded they maintain very monolithic status quos with everything from tickets and stand-ups to release management.
Which was something I had been kvetching about for months and expressly warned, multiple times to our release manager as a point of concern given how quickly plugin vulnerabilities are reported (as someone comment on elsewhere in the thread).
The day finally came when someone from one of our other offices went to update some infrastructure as code repos, poof. Jenkins server gone. They didn't have a roll back plan, and to complete the trifecta, they somehow also killed all of the instance volume backups. An entire sprint was summarily dedicated to creating a new build pipeline, I had resumes out the door the next day.
This article hits so many of our pain points I joked to a current coworker who followed me out of that place that I wanted to print it and mail it to our former RM.