This is a guest post by Manuel Recena Soto (aka recena). Users of the plug-in know that it has undergone very important changes in the last two years. Unfortunately, some of these changes resulted in regressions for some users that weren’t properly addressed in subsequent releases. Many users were therefore forced to keep using an older release of the plugin to keep their instances running. To fix...

Kubernetes is an open-source project by Google that provides a platform for managing Docker containers as a cluster. In their own words: Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions. Using the concepts of "labels" and "pods", it groups the...

After several months of inactivity, office hours, the bi-weekly meeting of Jenkins users and developers to learn more about Jenkins, are back. I’ll host the first session next Wednesday at 11 am PDT. This session will be about Stapler, focusing on what Jenkins plugin authors need to know about it, e.g. request routing, form submission handling, or how Jelly/Groovy views work. While this is going to...

This is a guest post by Kirill Merkushev at Yandex. I met him at JUC Europe where he showed me the project he was working on: Juseppe. It looked really interesting, so I asked him to write this guest post. When you write your first custom Jenkins plugin for internal use, it’s easy enough to deploy it on one or maybe two Jenkins instances. You...

Let’s say you’re browsing the 'Available' tab in the Jenkins plugin manager for interesting-looking plugins. How do you learn more about them, preferably without installing them on your production instance? You click the plugin’s name, which usually links to the plugin’s wiki page, of course! Unfortunately, it’s possible for plugins to be published without a wiki page, or any other documentation aside from what’s provided...