Hi all, this is my first blogpost on jenkins.io. My name is Kseniia Nenasheva, I work as a Graphics Designer at CloudBees. I have been using Jenkins since 2012 as a QA engineer, and I am happy to contribute to the project. I have also submitted some patches to the core and plugins, and probably you have seen some Jenkins logos created by me, and some of you may...

At long last, the way we build and deploy software is finally changing and significantly so. The days of the persnickety, prima donna build machine where monolithic applications were built, tested, and deployed are numbered. And that is a "Good Thing (tm)" - a consequence of how we will meet the transformation goals of our businesses. Modern applications consist of distributed services, often with multiple microservices that...

Next week Olivier Vernin from CloudBees and Brian Benz from Microsoft will be presenting a session at DevOps World | Jenkins World about how Microsoft has been working with Jenkins to build Jenkins plugins and produce Jenkins on Microsoft Azure. These plugins run Jenkins on Azure Linux and Windows VMs, Kubernetes, azure App service, as well as deploy artifacts to those Azure platforms and more. All...

Evergreen is a distribution of Jenkins we are working on that provides an easy to use and automatically upgrading experience. This year at the conference, there will be not just one, but two talks to present Evergreen to the Jenkins community: Continuously Delivering an Easy-to-Use Jenkins with Jenkins Evergreen, by R. Tyler Croy. Safely Upgrading Jenkins Every Single Day, by Baptiste Mathus. Tyler will present the overall Jenkins...

A few months ago I published a blog post about Cloud Native Special Interest Group (SIG) and ongoing projects related to Cloud Native Jenkins. Next week we will be presenting at DevOps World | Jenkins World together with Carlos Sanchez and Jesse Glick, so I would like to provide a heads up for our talk: “A Cloud Native Jenkins”. In our talk, we will focus on the following topics: Pluggable Storage, our...

Jenkins' Warnings plugin collects compiler warnings or issues reported by static analysis tools and visualizes the results. The plugin (and the associated static analysis plugin suite) has been part of the Jenkins plugin eco-system for more than ten years now. In order to optimize user experience and support Pipeline, a major rewrite of the whole set of plugins was necessary. This new version (code name White Mountain)...

Oleg Nenashev and I will be speaking at DevOps World | Jenkins World in San Francisco this year about Scaling Network Connections from the Jenkins Controller. Over the years there have been many efforts to analyze, optimize, and fortify the “Remoting channel” that allows a controller to orchestrate agent activity and receive build results. Techniques such as tuning the agent launcher can improve service, but qualitative change can only...

This is a guest blog by Niklas Tanskanen, consultant at Eficode. Kubernetes, the container orchestration platform is rapidly becoming popular. There are more and more workloads that you can run on top of Kubernetes. It’s becoming an enabling layer of your Hyper-convergenced infrastructure. If you set up Kubernetes as a Cloud provider in Jenkins, you’ll get a very powerful couple for running your workloads. To do that, you...

This blog post is part 1 of a Configuration-as-Code series Jenkins is highly flexible and is today the de facto standard for implementing CI/CD, with an active community to maintain plugins for almost any combination of tools and use-cases. But flexibility has a cost: in addition to Jenkins core, many plugins require some system-level configuration to be set so they can do their job. In some circumstances,...

More and more today, continuous delivery (CD) pipelines are making use of containers. In many implementations, the primary workflow/orchestration tool for CD pipelines is Jenkins. And the primary container orchestration tool is Docker. Together these two applications provide a powerful, yet simple to understand and use, model for leveraging containers in your CD pipeline. When creating a pipeline script in Jenkins, there are multiple ways to incorporate Docker...