Northanger CI/CD

The Jenkins Server Is Surely Haunted

Jane Austen · 2 June 2026

“No one who had ever seen Jenkins in its infancy would have supposed it born to be an automated pipeline.”

A gothic comedy about CI/CD pipelines, inexplicable build failures, strange noises from Jenkins at midnight, and the dangers of allowing imagination to roam freely through deployment infrastructure.

Contents

1. Chapter 1: The Abbey Build Server
2. Chapter 2: A Most Suspicious Deployment Failure
3. Chapter 3: The YAML of Udolpho
4. Chapter 4: Reader, It Was a Missing Semicolon

Published by Austenpunk, the distinguished imprint for engineers who believe that every production incident would be improved by a stronger sense of narrative irony.

This essential volume combines literary feeling, technical anxiety, and just enough documentation to suggest that somebody once understood the system.