Comment by Flaaaaanders

The article resonates a lot with me. I've been seeing the transition from Jenkins to Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions (same thing more or less) in the company I'm working at and came to very similar conclusions. The single big Jenkins machine shared by 10+ teams mixing UI configuration from 20 plugins with build systems and custom scripts wasn't great, so it was the right decision to move away from it. However, neither great is the current workflow of write->commit->wait->fail->write... while figuring out the correct YAML syntax of some third party GitHub Action that is required to do something very basic like finding files in a nested folder by pattern.

Take a look at Prefect - https://www.prefect.io/ - as far as I can see, it ticks a lot of the boxes that the author mentions (if you can live with the fact that the API is a Python SDK; albeit a very good one that gives you all the scripting power of Python). Don't be scared away by the buzzwords on the landing page, browsing the extensive documentation is totally worthwhile to learn about all of the features Prefect offers. Execution can either happen on their paid cloud offering or self-hosted on your own physical or cloud premises at no extra cost. The Python SDK is open source.

Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with Prefect in any way.