# What is the most preferred pipeline in other companies, Declarative or Scripted?

Pipeline

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- Posted at: almost 7 years ago
- Author title: Sr Engineer
- Net upvotes: 1


## Comments
### Comment 1

The type of pipeline a company or individual uses  will depend on what they are asking the pipeline to do.   There are simply some functions that a declarative pipeline can not perform.  

Personally though,  I do not write scripted pipelines as my pipelines are fairly simple in nature. 

Your best bet is to learn the pipeline style that meets your needs. 

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- Posted at: over 6 years ago
- Author title: Senior Web Administrator



### Comment 2

Mostly Declarative pipeline since t makes the pipeline code easier to read and write. This code is written in a Jenkinsfile which can be checked into a source control management system such as Git. scripted pipeline uses stricter groovy based syntaxes. 

The declarative pipeline is defined within a block labelled ‘pipeline’ whereas the scripted pipeline is defined within a ‘node’. 

The Declarative pipeline code will looks like this:

pipeline {
    agent none 
    stages {
        stage('Example Build') {
            agent { docker 'maven:3-alpine' } 
            steps {
                echo 'Hello, Maven'
                sh 'mvn --version'
            }
        }
        stage('Example Test') {
            agent { docker 'openjdk:8-jre' } 
            steps {
                echo 'Hello, JDK'
                sh 'java -version'
            }
        }
    }
}

This also promotes the idea of a "Shared Libraries" pipeline: https://jenkins.io/doc/book/pipeline/shared-libraries/

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- Posted at: over 6 years ago
- Author title: Development Lead




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