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...

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...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Blue Ocean is a new user experience for Jenkins, and version 1.0 is now live! Blue Ocean makes Jenkins, and continuous delivery, approachable to all team members. In my previous post, I used the Blue Ocean Activity View to track the state of branches and Pull Requests in one project. In this video, I’ll use the Blue Ocean Dashboard get...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Blue Ocean is a new user experience for Jenkins, and version 1.0 is now live! Blue Ocean makes Jenkins, and continuous delivery, approachable to all team members. In my previous post, I showed how easy it is to create and edit Declarative Pipelines using the Blue Ocean Visual Pipeline Editor. In this video, I’ll use the Blue Ocean Activity...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Blue Ocean is a new user experience for Jenkins, and version 1.0 is now live! Blue Ocean makes Jenkins, and continuous delivery, approachable to all team members. In my previous post, I explained how to install Blue Ocean on your local Jenkins instance and switch to using Blue Ocean. As promised, here’s a screencast that picks up where that...

Back in May 2016 we announced our intent to rethink the Jenkins User experience with the Blue Ocean project and today the Jenkins project are pleased to announce the general availability of Blue Ocean 1.0. Blue Ocean is an entirely new, modern and fun way for developers to use Jenkins that has been built from the ground up to help teams of any size approach Continuous Delivery. Easily installed as...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Welcome to Blue Ocean 1.0! In case you’ve been heads down on other projects for the past 10 months, Blue Ocean is a new user experience for Jenkins, and version 1.0 was released today! Blue Ocean makes Jenkins, and continuous delivery, approachable to all team members. I’ve been working with it for the past several months, and I can tell...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Declare Your Pipelines! Declarative Pipeline 1.0 is here! This is the fourth post in a series showing some of the cool features of Declarative Pipeline. In the previous post, we integrated several notification services into a Declarative Pipeline. We kept our Pipeline clean and easy to understand by using a shared library to make a custom step called sendNotifications that we called at...

Back in September 2016 we announced the availability of the Blue Ocean beta and the forthcoming Visual Pipeline Editor. We are happy to announce that you can try the Pipeline Editor preview release today. What is it? The Visual Pipeline Editor is the simplest way for anyone wanting to get started with creating Pipelines in Jenkins. It’s also a great way for advanced Jenkins users to start adopting pipeline. It...