By Darryl K. Taft
Jenkins has long had scalability issues, said Jason Bloomberg, an analyst at Intellyx. “So the Cloudbees High Availability Mode is a welcome update. Now Jenkins will no longer have a single point of failure and will also offer automatic load balancing — capabilities expected in any cloud environment and long overdue for Jenkins.”
Moreover, high availability and horizontal scalability for Jenkins is a capability our enterprise customers have wanted for a long time, Labourey told The
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“The ability to run Jenkins at massive scale with active-active high availability becomes especially critical when you’re dealing with thousands of developers, running multiple thousands or hundreds of thousands of jobs across a small set of monolithic, overloaded controllers,” said Shawn Ahmed, chief product officer, CloudBees, in a statement. “At this scale, you are dealing with a community of developers that want a high-resiliency developer experience with no disruption. We have removed significant barriers in scaling Jenkins, enabling enterprises to run greater workloads than ever before. The new capabilities in CloudBees CI are a game-changing experience for DevOps teams.”
