Jenkins vs Terraform: Which Is Better in 2026
Last Tuesday, I spent three hours on a video call helping a mid-stage startup untangle their deployment mess. They had a Jenkinsfile with 1,200 lines of Groovy that was trying to provision AWS infrastructure, build container images, run tests, and deploy to EKS—all in one massive, fragile pipeline. When it broke, nobody knew if the database was in a partial state or if the application just failed to deploy.
They were using Jenkins as both a CI/C