[suprgeek]

The flexibility of Jenkins continually impresses me. Given :

1) Simple UI (for simple usecases) 2) Easy setup on single node or multi-node scenarios 3)Automation capabilities

Unfortunately there are some gaps that make it just enough of a pain to really take up in a Production 24x7 env.

1) In a distributed setup, there are very minimal node management capabilities unless you manually integrate with say Zookeeper or something.

2) the plugins for backing up and restoring configurations are "lacking" to put it politely

3) Very hard to change the Master machine in a master slave set-up

4)etc etc

So while Jenkins is a like the Swiss army knife for CI be careful that you don't take it to a (multi-node production) Gunfight - to stretch the analogy.