Jenkins as a Code, or how I stopped clicking around in the UI (opens in new tab)

I've been running Jenkins in one form or another for years now. Different companies, different sizes of teams, but somehow the same story keeps repeating itself, and at some point I just couldn't take it anymore. So I decided to write down what I went through, what I learned, and where this journey took me. This is Part 1 of what I'm calling My CI/CD Odyssey — a series where I want to share the ideas, the mistakes, and the things that actually worked. Future chapters will go deeper into the p...