A few years ago our CTO wrote about building a Continuous Integration server for Ruby On Rails using Jenkins and docker. The solution has been our CI pipeline for the past years until we recently decided to make an upgrade. Why? Jenkins version was way out of date and it was getting difficult to upgrade Wolox has grown significantly over the past years and we’ve been experiencing scaling issues Very few people...

Hello, I am Jenn, the new Product Manager for Blue Ocean and Jenkins Pipeline at CloudBees. I am based out of the Seattle area and am excited to be working on Jenkins. :D We released version 1.5.0 of the Blue Ocean plugin late last week. If you’re using Blue Ocean, you’ll want to grab this update since it includes many improvements and bug fixes! New Features Blue Ocean now includes...

Jenkins X is an opinionated platform for providing CI / CD on top of Kubernetes. We’ve chosen a set of core applications that we install and wire together so things work out-of-the-box, providing a turn key experience. This blog aims to build on previous introductions to Jenkins X and provide a deeper insight to what you get when you install Jenkins X. So what happens? After downloading the jx...

Its been 24 days since we announced Jenkins X, a CI/CD solution for modern cloud applications on Kubernetes. I’m truly blown away by the response and feedback from the community - thank you! We’ve also had lots of folks report they’ve successfully used Jenkins X on a number of clouds including GKE, AWS and AKS along with on-premises clusters which is great to hear! Here’s a brief overview of the...

We just released security updates to Jenkins, versions 2.116 and 2.107.2, that fix two security vulnerabilities. For an overview of what was fixed, see the security advisory. Subscribe to the jenkinsci-advisories mailing list to receive important notifications related to Jenkins security....

I recently wrote about how all the cloud platforms are all in Kubernetes and so are developers. It is an exciting time, but the problem for many is that this is a huge blank sheet of paper for how to build and deploy applications. A white space, a void, a limitless canvas of possibilities. Insert metaphors here. The problem, as you may guess, is that few people really like or are...

Last week we released the latest version of Declarative Pipelines, version 1.2.8. With that out, we thought now would be a good time to introduce you to the new features and options that have been added to Declarative since the beginning of 2018. These are all available now in the Update Center, with version 1.2.8. Declarative Directive Generator This is something we’re really happy about - if you go to...

Jenkins Essentials has been renamed to Jenkins Evergreen since this was written. In his presentation at the 2017 Jenkins World Contributor Summit, Kohsuke challenged us to continue the work started with Jenkins 2 of making Jenkins easier to install and easier to use. "A user should be successful with Jenkins in under five minutes and five clicks." At that same Contributor Summit, a few of us discussed the idea of...