Comment by doix

You are not wrong, Jenkins had many problems. But I would argue that the solutions were always grounded in the Linux userland.

And I also agree that you could use GitHub actions in a similar way to how I talk about Jenkins. I also think you could use Jenkins in a way that is similar to GitHub actions with an extremely convoluted Jenkins file that relies on Jenkins plugins etc.

But nowhere I worked did that with Jenkins, whereas everywhere I worked with GitHub actions does create extremely complex pipelines relying on 3rd party actions (with many being vendor supplied). I'm sure(hope?) the DevOps folks looked at what each action actually does by going to wherever it's pulled from and read it (and the actions it pulls in).

I'm not necessarily arguing that things are worse now. Just that you don't get a "free" understanding anymore by just having a good familiarity of the Linux userland. When there's a problem, I stick my head in the sand and let the DevOps people handle it.

I also haven't worked anywhere that uses Jenkins in 10+ years, so maybe if I went back, it would be the same as Github.