I am pleased to announce Microsoft PowerShell support for Jenkins Pipeline! As of Durable Task 1.14 and Pipeline Nodes and Processes Plugin 2.12, you will now be able to run Microsoft PowerShell scripts directly in your Jenkins Pipeline projects. This blog post covers the basics of getting started with Microsoft PowerShell in Pipeline and provides some basic examples. Introduction to Microsoft PowerShell PowerShell is Microsoft’s open source and cross platform...

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 Mandy Hubbard, Software Engineer/QA Architect at Care.com. Imagine this: It’s 4:30pm on a Friday, you have a major release on Monday, and your Jenkins server goes down. It doesn’t matter if it experienced a hardware failure, fell victim to a catastrophic fat-finger error, or just got hit by a meteor - your Jenkins server is toast. How long did it take to perfect your Pipeline, all your...

This is a guest post by Kevin Burnett, DevOps Lead at Rosetta Stone. Have you experienced that thing where you make a change in an app, and when you go to check on the results of the build, you find an error that really doesn’t seem relevant to your change? And then you notice that your build is the first in over a year. And then you realize that...

Multiple Jenkins plugins received updates today that fix several security vulnerabilities, including high severity ones: Docker Commons Plugin Git Plugin GitHub Branch Source Plugin Parameterized Trigger Plugin Periodic Backup Plugin Pipeline: Build Step Plugin Pipeline: Groovy Plugin Poll SCM Plugin Role-based Authorization Strategy Plugin Script Security Plugin Sidebar Link Plugin Subversion Plugin Additionally, the SSH Plugin received a security update a few days ago. For an overview of what was fixed, see the security advisory. Subscribe to the jenkinsci-advisories...

This is a guest post by Luis Martínez de Bartolomé, Conan Co-Founder C and C++ are present in very important industries today, including Operating Systems, embedded systems, finances, research, automotive, robotics, gaming, and many more. The main reason for this is performance, which is critical to many of these industries, and cannot be compared to any other technology. As a counterpart, the C/C++ ecosystem has a few...

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...

As in previous years, there’ll be a contributor summit at Jenkins World 2017: Let’s talk about the future of Jenkins and how you can help shape it! The contributor summit is the place where the current and future contributors of the Jenkins project get together. This year, the theme is “working together”. Traditionally, most contributors are plugin maintainers focusing on their own plugins, but it’s...