How GitLab CI compares with the three variants of Jenkins

The announcement of two new versions of Jenkins, Cloud Native Jenkins, and Jenkins Evergreen, aims to address limitations in the current legacy Jenkins, which is considered "trapped in a local optimum." The comparison of GitLab CI with these Jenkins variants reveals that both Jenkins and GitLab are open core projects with comparable governance and distribution mechanisms, although they differ in several operational aspects. GitLab CI is integrated within GitLab and offers seamless automatic restarts in case of memory issues, while Legacy Jenkins often requires daily manual restarts. GitLab CI's architecture is based on convention over configuration, ensuring functionality is integrated into the main code base, unlike Legacy Jenkins, which faces configuration fragility due to plugin dependencies. Cloud Native Jenkins is being redesigned with simpler primitives and utilizes Kubernetes as the runtime, whereas Jenkins Evergreen focuses on a curated set of essential plugins for better integration. GitLab CI also emphasizes a secure-by-default design and configuration as code, while Jenkins’ configuration requires master-level plugin setup, highlighting GitLab’s streamlined approach in comparison to the complex plugin ecosystem of Jenkins.

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