[jurassic]

Having worked with a huge Jenkins deployment at a large company somewhat recently (>10,000 jobs), I found it worked okay enough that company leadership never felt it was worth the pain if switching. But all the friction points added up to a system that was rarely touched by anyone who hadn’t learned where all the bodies were buried. Over time that meant as an engineering org we were underinvesting in CI; there was a lot of quality-oriented stuff beyond unit testing that never got implemented in CI because the typical dev was unaware of how to change it or fearful about trying to change it. The relative accessibility of Github Actions (and other config as code alternatives) transforms the average dev’s relationship to CI from consumer to owner/developer/maintainer, and I think that is extremely worthwhile even if these tools bring some new problems of their own.

[ryukoposting]

As someone who has only ever been involved in CI/CD at smaller companies, I take for granted that our pipelines are maintainable by the developers writing the code being tested/packaged. That just seems like a positive indicator for QA culture.