diff --git a/pkg/controller/jenkins/configuration/user/casc/caac.go b/pkg/controller/jenkins/configuration/user/casc/caac.go
index 07da86bc..5a7b1be3 100644
--- a/pkg/controller/jenkins/configuration/user/casc/caac.go
+++ b/pkg/controller/jenkins/configuration/user/casc/caac.go
@@ -166,6 +166,9 @@ node('master') {
     configs.addAll(configsText.tokenize('\n'))
     
     stage('Synchronizing files') {
+        println "Synchronizing Kubernetes ConfigMaps and Secrets to the Jenkins master pod."
+        println "This step may fail and will be retried in the next job build if necessary."
+
 		synchronizeFiles(secretsPath, (String[])secrets, userConfigurationSecretExpectedHash)
 		synchronizeFiles(configsPath, (String[])configs, userConfigurationExpectedHash)
     }
@@ -183,7 +186,7 @@ def synchronizeFiles(String path, String[] files, String hash) {
     def complete = false
     for(int i = 1; i <= 10; i++) {
         def actualHash = calculateHash(files, path)
-        println "Expected hash '${hash}', actual hash '${actualHash}', path '${path}'"
+        println "Expected hash '${hash}', actual hash '${actualHash}', path '${path}', will retry"
         if(hash == actualHash) {
             complete = true
             break
diff --git a/pkg/controller/jenkins/groovy/groovy.go b/pkg/controller/jenkins/groovy/groovy.go
index cc74cd12..d2272188 100644
--- a/pkg/controller/jenkins/groovy/groovy.go
+++ b/pkg/controller/jenkins/groovy/groovy.go
@@ -108,10 +108,13 @@ node('master') {
     scripts.addAll(scriptsText.tokenize('\n'))
     
     stage('Synchronizing files') {
+        println "Synchronizing Kubernetes ConfigMaps to the Jenkins master pod."
+        println "This step may fail and will be retried in the next job build if necessary."
+
         def complete = false
         for(int i = 1; i <= 10; i++) {
             def actualHash = calculateHash((String[])scripts, scriptsPath)
-            println "Expected hash '${expectedHash}', actual hash '${actualHash}'"
+            println "Expected hash '${expectedHash}', actual hash '${actualHash}', will retry"
             if(expectedHash == actualHash) {
                 complete = true
                 break