The main reason why we decided to develop the Jenkins Operator is the fact that we faced a lot of problems with standard Jenkins deployment. We want to make Jenkins more robust, suitable for dynamic and multi-tenant environments.

Some of the problems we want to solve:

• Installing plugins with incompatible versions or security vulnerabilities
• Better configuration as code
• Lack of end to end tests
• Handling graceful shutdown properly
• Security and hardening out of the box
• Orphaned jobs with no jnlp connection
• Making errors more visible for end users