Currently it’s quite difficult to share and reuse the same workspace between multiple jobs and across nodes. There are some possible workarounds for achieving this, but each of them has its own drawback, e.g. stash/unstash pre-made artifacts, Copy Artifacts plugin or advanced job settings. A viable solution for this problem is the External Workspace Manager plugin, which facilitates workspace share and reuse across multiple Jenkins jobs and nodes. It...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. In this blog post, I’ll show you how to speed up your pipeline by using the Parallel Test Executor Plugin. So much to do, so little time…​ In my career, I’ve helped many teams move to continuous integration and delivery. One problem we always encounter is how to run all the tests needed to ensure high-quality changes while still...

This is a guest post by Aleksei Besogonov, Senior Software Developer at Amazon Web Services. Earlier this year, we published a case study on how Lyft has used Amazon EC2 Spot instances to save 75% on their continuous delivery infrastructure costs by simply changing four lines of code. Several other EC2 customers like Mozilla have also reduced costs of their continuous integration, deployment and testing pipelines by up to 90%...

About me I am Cynthia Anyango from Nairobi, Kenya. I am a second year student at Maseno University. I am currently specializing on Ruby on Rails and trying to learn Python. I recently started contributing to Open source projects.My major contribution was at Mozilla, where I worked with the QA for Cloud services. I did manual and automated tests for various cloud services. I wrote documentation too. Above that, I...

This is a guest post by Chris Price. Chris is a software engineer at Puppet, and has been spending some time lately on automating performance testing using the latest Jenkins features. In this blog post, I’m going to attempt to provide some step-by-step notes on how to refactor an existing Jenkins plugin to make it compatible with the new Jenkins Pipeline jobs. Before we get to the fun stuff,...

About myself My name is Alexandru Somai. I’m following a major in Software Engineering at the Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. I have more than two years hands-on experience working in Software Development. I enjoy writing code in Java, Groovy and JavaScript. The technologies and frameworks that I’m most familiar with are: Spring Framework, Spring Security, Hibernate, JMS, Web Services, JUnit, TestNG, Mockito. As build tools and continuous integration, I’m using...

In this post I will show how you can make your own DSL extensions and distribute them as a plugin, using Pipeline Script. A quick refresher Pipeline has a well kept secret: the ability to add your own DSL elements. Pipeline is itself a DSL, but you can extend it. There are 2 main reasons I can think you may want to do this: You want to reduce boilerplate by...

The Script Security Plugin and the Extra Columns Plugin were updated today to fix medium-severity security vulnerabilities. For detailed information about the security content of these updates, see the security advisory. Subscribe to the jenkinsci-advisories mailing list to receive important notifications related to Jenkins security....

With more than a thousand public plugins in the Jenkins community now, it should come as no surprise that some of them are no longer actively maintained. Plugin authors move on when they change jobs, or lose interest in the plugin, and that’s fine. Plugins are hosted on the Jenkins project infrastructure after all, and when a maintainer moves on, others can continue their...

Over 2,000 members of the Docker community attended Docker Hack Day events around the world. One of the forty-two Docker Hacks has some familiar names attached…​ Nicolas De Loof and Yoann Dubreuil from Docker Rennes, who are also active in our community, waved the Jenkins flag in this event and produced Jenkins docker agents plugin. This plugin lets you run builds inside containers, and in that...