GitHub Actions or Jenkins? How DevOps Pipelines Evolved by 2025
Last Updated on October 15, 2025 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Meghana Thota
Originally published on Towards AI.
“A pipeline is code — but the platform around it can make or break your developer experience.”
If you’ve ever wrestled with plugin breakage, spiraling CI costs, or YAML sprawl across repos, you know: not all CI/CD tools are created equal. In this post, we’ll compare the top contenders in 2025 and give you a decision cheat sheet.
The article discusses the evolution of DevOps pipelines and compares popular CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, and others in 2025, analyzing their strengths and trade-offs to help teams choose the right tool based on their specific needs and environments.
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