Usually I explain one of my CICD pipeline to others with words such like github action + argo-cd. I am not sure if they understand it. A picture is worth a thousand words. Here is my CICD pipeline picture. I used excalidraw to draw the diagram. Excalidraw link is https://excalidraw.com/#json=D7EzmscoRDH8LYLZmtr2l,FVEHlWoxFXtoqqHpReMaEw. Feel free to use it.

TLDR: my CICD choice: argo-cd and argo-workflow Since I chose argocd and github action as our CICD pipeline two years ago, I rarely thought about other choices and the reason I made the choices. Recently I leant from several sources that jenkins is still widely used, it arouse my interest on this subject again. I reconsidered my choice and layed out the reasons here for my future references. I didn’t have a good impression with java in my past java projects.

I had some projects on github, gitlab and gitee. Their CI pipelines are quite different. To save the troubles and times, it is a natural choice to seek other options to unify on one solution. At first, I looked into jenkins x. However it is quite heavy and with opinions. Considering its Maturity Level Matrix, I am not sure I can make it happen in my limited after hours times.