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by tauntz 1535 days ago
There are _a lot_ of companies/teams that don't need/want to manage the complexity that comes with setting up and configuring generic CI environments. They want to get going as fast as possible and never have to think about what's going on behind the scenes - that's especially true in some specific areas. For example mobile apps. 90% of people aren't too happy about managing all the complexity that comes with having to juggle Xcode versions or Android emulators etc in a scalable way.

..at least that's my experience and why I founded an extremely opinionated CI service for mobile apps years ago :)
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rhodysurf 1535 days ago
This is exactly why we use it. We legit don’t have time to manage more in house services and need CI. Eventually we probably move to GitHub actions but that isn’t free for orgs.
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nerdjon 1535 days ago
I will admit that needing to build mobile apps in CI is one particular challenge I have never needed to deal with.

But I can see that specific use case being a good one for an opinionated CI environment.

I largely work with Docker containers and Serverless. 2 areas that I don't see any advantages going outside of Jenkins (and see many downsides)

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