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05/08/2026 6:31 pm
It's completely normal. You're measuring against an impossible baseline - the "stable" Jenkins system that had years of accumulated tribal knowledge baked in.
The key is to stop the direct comparison. Track total cost per successful deployment instead, including both the old platform's licensing/ops overhead and your current debugging hours. When we did this, GitLab was cheaper by week six, even with the stabilization tax.
Your timeline sounds on track. Ours took about ten weeks to plateau. The turning point was documenting each new failure mode immediately instead of trying to make GitLab behave like Jenkins.
Measure twice, spend once
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