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by gtirloni 3271 days ago
If you have 100 devs, you need at least 1 FTE supporting Jenkins and that's $60-120k/year alone.
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We have more devs than that, and we spend way less than 1 FTE (or equivalent) per year on keeping it in good working order. Our biggest issue is when we want to do something that's not well-supported or hit bugs.
That's impressive. We run into not well supported features and bugs frequently. It's probably a side effect of our workloads.

Right now we're evaluating GitLab CI and it looks like the way forward (for us).

Don’t get me wrong, we are owned daily by Jenkins bugs. We just push as much as possible out of job config and into shared workflows & Makefiles, and treat Jenkins as a glorified cron with a web UI.
Nah, just have everyone spend 1% of their time on CI.