Issue

• Jenkins UI is running incredibly slow
• Pipeline Stage View UI is not responding or running slowly
• Pipeline Builds are never finishing

Environment

• CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise
• Pipeline Plugin

Resolution

Try not to use use while loops inside of Pipeline code. A better alternative would be a Retry + Sleep blocks.

This will eliminate the possibility of an endless cycle of a build because it will stop trying after a certain number of attempts. Additionally it ensures that a failure is recorded if the deployment gets frozen.

Reference

• Pipeline as Code in Jenkins