A few years ago our CTO wrote about building a Continuous Integration server for Ruby On Rails using Jenkins and docker. The solution has been our CI pipeline for the past years until we recently decided to make an upgrade. Why? Jenkins version was way out of date and it was getting difficult to upgrade Wolox has grown significantly over the past years and we’ve been experiencing scaling issues Very few people...

Overview Recently some UI improvements around the Manage Jenkins page have been introduced. The visual changes are very subtle but behind them, there are interesting benefits. Some of the goals that we have tried to achieve: Applying a semantic HTML Removing the <table> tag usage for implementing layouts and content structures. Read this article if you want to know reasons and/or arguments. Small re-styling focused on spacing, margins, composition,...

This is a guest post by Brian Dawson on behalf of CloudBees, where he works as a DevOps Evangelist responsible for developing and sharing continuous delivery and DevOps best practices. He also serves as the CloudBees Product Marketing Manager for Jenkins. Once again it’s that time of year when CloudBees sponsors the Jenkins Community Survey to assist the community with gathering objective insights into how jenkins is being used and what users...

This is a guest post by Guillaume Laforge, Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Last week, I had the pleasure to speak at the Jenkins Community Day conference, in Paris, organized by my friends from JFrog, provider of awesome tools for software management and distribution. I covered how to scale Jenkins with Kubernetes on Google Container Engine. For the impatient, here are the slides of the presentation I’ve given: But let’s step back a...

This is a guest post by Michael Hüttermann. Michael is an expert in Continuous Delivery, DevOps and SCM/ALM. More information about him at huettermann.net, or follow him on Twitter: @huettermann. In a past blog post Delivery Pipelines, with Jenkins 2, SonarQube, and Artifactory, we talked about pipelines which result in binaries for development versions. Now, in this blog post, I zoom in to different parts of the holistic pipeline...

This is a guest post by Michael Hüttermann. Michael is an expert in Continuous Delivery, DevOps and SCM/ALM. More information about him at huettermann.net, or follow him on Twitter: @huettermann. Continuous Delivery and DevOps are well known and widely spread practices nowadays. It is commonly accepted that it is crucial to form great teams and define shared goals first and then choose and integrate the tools fitting best...

This is a guest post by Brian Dawson on behalf of CloudBees, where he works as a DevOps Evangelist responsible for developing and sharing continuous delivery and DevOps best practices. He also serves as the CloudBees Product Marketing Manager for Jenkins. Once again it’s that time of year when CloudBees sponsors the Jenkins Community Survey to assist the community with gathering objective insights into how jenkins is being used and what users...

This is a guest post by Damien Coraboeuf, Jenkins project contributor and Continuous Delivery consultant. Implementing a CI/CD solution based on Jenkins has become very easy. Dealing with hundreds of jobs? Not so much. Having to scale to thousands of jobs? Now this is a real challenge. This is the story of a journey to get out of the jungle of jobs…​ Start of the journey At the beginning of the...

In this post I will show how you can make your own DSL extensions and distribute them as a plugin, using Pipeline Script. A quick refresher Pipeline has a well kept secret: the ability to add your own DSL elements. Pipeline is itself a DSL, but you can extend it. There are 2 main reasons I can think you may want to do this: You want to reduce boilerplate by...

This is a guest post by Alyssa Tong. Alyssa works for CloudBees, helping to organize Jenkins community events around the world. Planning is underway for Jenkins World, a major Jenkins event for developers, release engineers and others interested in automation. The conference will be held from September 13th to 15th in Santa Clara, California and is being organized and sponsored in part by CloudBees. Just like the "Jenkins User Conferences" before it,...