CloudBees SaaSifies Jenkins X running on Google Cloud Platform

CloudBees joined the SaaS club today with a preview of its Jenkins X CI/CD product running atop Google's cloud. Famed for the venerable Jenkins pipeline wrangler, CloudBees unveiled the open-source Jenkins X in 2018 and, recognising that setting the thing up can be a faff (and eyeing the subscription models that have tempted …

[teknopaul]

Re: "and occasionally become nearasdammit impossible to manage"

I'm in the process of migrating my cloud based ci server to new node with a whopping 1 mb of Ram. Naturally not Jenkins. It uses. Cron. Make. Tsp. Ssh. and a couple of bash scripts.

If your build tools use the cli you dont need to write/support millions of plugins.

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't scare the hipsters

They come out in a cold sweat if they have < 1Gb of ram and a huge cloud infrastructure and click monkey support tools in which to base their 10k line machine learning Hello World program written in FadLang 0.1

[Leanbridge Technologies]

CloudBees’ decision to go with Google is not that much of a surprise as it already enjoys a strong relationship with the internet giant. CloudBees was notably a launch partner for Google’s new Cloud Run serverless infrastructure platform, announced last month, and the Google Cloud Marketplace is chock-a-block full of CloudBees’ products.