This is a guest post by Brent Laster, Senior Manager, Research and Development at SAS. Jenkins Pipeline has fundamentally changed how users can orchestrate their pipelines and workflows. Essentially, anything that you can do in a script or program can now be done in a Jenkinsfile or in a pipeline script created within the application. But just because you can do nearly anything directly in those mechanisms doesn’t mean...

Jenkins World is approaching fast, and the event staff are all busy preparing. I’ve decided to do something different this year as part of my keynote: I want to invite a few Jenkins users like you come up on stage with me. There have been amazing developments in Jenkins over the past year. For my keynote, I want highlight how the new Jenkins (Pipeline as code with the Jenkinsfile, no...

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. We have received a good number of nominations for the Jenkins World 2017 Community Awards. These nominations are indicative of the excellent work Jenkins members are doing for the betterment of Jenkins. The deadline for nomination is this Friday, June 16. This...

The Blue Ocean team are proud to announce the release of Blue Ocean 1.1. We’ve shipped a tonne of small improvements, features and bug fixes here that will make your day-to-day experience with Blue Ocean even smoother. Today is also the first time we are promoting our Public Roadmap. We recognise that using JIRA can be a bit of a pain to track what we are working ...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. I’ve only been working with Pipeline for about a year. Pipeline in and of itself has been a huge improvement over old-style Jenkins projects. As a developer, it has been so great be able work with Jenkins Pipelines using the same tools I use for writing any other kind of code. I’ve also found a number of tools...

With the ongoing migration to Azure, I would like to share my thoughts regarding one of the biggest challenges we have faced thus far: orchestrating container infrastructure. Many of the Jenkins project’s applications are run as Docker containers, making Kubernetes a logical choice as far as running our containers, but it presents its own set of challenges. For example, what would the workflow from development to production look like? Before going deeper...

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. This year at Jenkins World 2017, the Jenkins community will celebrate the Most Valuable Contributor, a Jenkins Security MVP, and the Most Valuable Advocate. This will be the first year we are commemorating community members who have shown excellence through commitment, creative thinking, and...