CloudBees
CloudBees. Is the commercial steward of Jenkins and sells managed CI/CD (CloudBees CI, SaaS or self-managed controllers) plus enterprise orchestration (CloudBees CD, formerly ElectricFlow).
Blurb
CloudBees Unify is the enterprise control and context plane for your entire AI-powered software delivery lifecycle: open, multi-agentic, and continuously secure.
Summary
Garden stance: We hold CloudBees for our estate.
Key points:
| Topic | Notes |
|---|---|
| CloudBees CI | Managed or self-hosted Jenkins; same pipeline model as OSS |
| CloudBees CD | Release orchestration product; separate from Jenkins but same “hold unless sunk” rule |
| Secrets | Do not rely on Jenkins credential stores; use HashiCorp Vault or cloud secret managers |
| Security | Align with DevSecOps gates on the PR path; do not treat the controller as trusted for production deploy keys |
| Greenfield | Default to adopt tools in CI-CD Tools (Actions + Argo CD pattern), not CloudBees net-new |
If you must stay: single controller strategy, pinned plugins, infrastructure as code for controller config, no production deploy credentials on Jenkins, DR drills that assume rebuild-not-restore.
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Details
| Topic | Notes |
|---|---|
| CloudBees CI | Managed or self-hosted Jenkins; same pipeline model as OSS |
| CloudBees CD | Release orchestration product; separate from Jenkins but same “hold unless sunk” rule |
| Secrets | Do not rely on Jenkins credential stores; use HashiCorp Vault or cloud secret managers |
| Security | Align with DevSecOps gates on the PR path; do not treat the controller as trusted for production deploy keys |
| Greenfield | Default to adopt tools in CI-CD Tools (Actions + Argo CD pattern), not CloudBees net-new |
If you must stay: single controller strategy, pinned plugins, infrastructure as code for controller config, no production deploy credentials on Jenkins, DR drills that assume rebuild-not-restore.
References