This is a guest post by Guy Salton, Sr. Professional Services Engineer for CA BlazeMeter. Jenkins Pipeline is an important Jenkins feature for creating and managing a project in Jenkins. This is opposed to the traditional way of creating a Jenkins project by using the Jenkins GUI. When running your open-source load test, Jenkins Pipeline enables resilience, execution control, advanced logic and Version Control management. This blog post will explain...

Updated on Jan 10, 2019: The deprecated protocols were removed in Remoting 3.40+ and Jenkins 2.214+. See JENKINS-60381: Remove old for more information and links. There are upcoming changes in Jenkins "core" which may require extra steps when upgrading Jenkins. If you use configuration management for Jenkins agents, please read this announcement carefully. If you have ever seen messages like "Channel is already closed" or "Remote call failed"...

This is a guest post by Pui Chee Chen, Product Manager at Microsoft working on Azure DevOps open source integrations. Recently, we improved the Azure Credential plugin by adding a custom binding for Azure Credentials which allows you to use an Azure service principal (the analog to a service or system account) via the Credentials Binding plugin. This means it’s now trivial to run Azure CLI commands from a Jenkins Pipeline. We...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. There are less than three weeks left until Jenkins World 2017. Like last year, I’ll be at the "Ask the Experts" booth to answer questions about all things Jenkins. In preparation, I’ve started a continuing series of quick tutorial videos that answer some of the most common questions I’ve seen asked in the community forums. These are by no means...

Multiple Jenkins plugins received updates today that fix several security vulnerabilities, including multiple high severity ones. We strongly recommend updating the following plugins as soon as possible: Blue Ocean Pipeline: Groovy Plugin Script Security Plugin Less severe security updates have been released for these plugins: Config File Provider Plugin Datadog Plugin Deploy to container Plugin DRY Plugin Pipeline: Input Step Plugin Static Analysis Utilities Plugin Additionally, the OWASP Dependency-Check Plugin recently also received a security update. For...

This is a guest post by Mark Waite, who maintains the git plugin, the git client plugin, and is a technical evangelist for CloudBees, Inc. While developing the "Intro to Plugin Development" workshop for Jenkins World 2017, I was impressed by the many Jenkins plugin development videos, tutorials, and guides. Here are some of my favorite plugin development topics and links. Plugin tutorial videos Jenkins Online Meetup Plugin Development Part 1 -...

This is a guest post by Alyssa Tong, who runs the Jenkins Area Meetup program and is also responsible for Marketing & Community Programs at CloudBees, Inc. There are less than four weeks left until Jenkins World 2017. As usual, Jenkins World would not be complete without the Jenkins projects' "Ask the Experts". If you are new to Jenkins World, the Jenkins project booth will be located on the expo...

This is a guest post by Alvin Huang, DevOps Engineer at FireEye. As a security company, FireEye relentlessly protects our customers from cyber attacks. To act quickly on intelligence and expertise learned, the feedback loop from the front lines to features and capabilities in software must be small. Jenkins helps us achieve this by allowing us to build, test, and deploy to our hardware and software platforms faster, so...