Anyone who recently started working on Jenkins or a couple of years ago, would by default go with creating pipelines for their CI/CD workflow. There is a parallel world, people who have been using Jenkins from its inception, who didn’t get on a foot race with new Jenkins features and stayed very loyal to “Freestyle jobs”. Don’t get me wrong, Freestyle job does the work, can be efficient and a simple solution if you have a 1 dimensional branching structure in your source control. …
