The document summarizes the author's journey towards setting up repeatable builds, going through several episodes of experimenting with different solutions and configurations on Jenkins. Some attempts included using a developer desktop as the CI server initially, setting up Node VMs to handle increased builds, using Chef to configure Jenkins and backup configurations, and setting up 64 OSX VMs with VMWare to test mobile apps although OSX posed many quirks. The last episode described putting all production dependencies in one box which became difficult to manage over time.