At Jenkins World 2016 on September 14-15, stop by the "Open Source Hub", located in the Partner Expo hall at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. The Open Source Hub will have many Jenkins contributors, committers, JAM leaders, and officers from the governance board under one roof, so there will be plenty of knowledge and talents on hand to share. We hope you’ll join in on the...

This blog post is the last one from the series of Google Summer of Code 2016, External Workspace Manager Plugin project. The previous posts are: Introductory blog post Alpha release announcement Beta release announcement In this post I would like to announce the 1.0.0 release of the External Workspace Manager Plugin version to the main update center. Here’s a highlight of the available features: Workspace share and reuse across multiple jobs, running on...

This is a guest post by Jenkins World speaker Neil Hunt, Senior DevOps Architect at Aquilent. In smaller companies with a handful of apps and fewer silos, implementing CD pipelines to support these apps is fairly straightforward using one of the many delivery orchestration tools available today. There is likely a constrained tool set to support - not an abundance of flavors of applications and security practices - and...

This is a guest post by Ben Patterson, Engineering Manager at edX. Picking a pear from a basket is straightforward when you can hold it in your hand, feel its weight, perhaps give a gentle squeeze, observe its color and look more closely at any bruises. If the only information we had was a photograph from one angle, we’d have to do some educated guessing. As...

This is a guest post by R. Tyler Croy, who is a long-time contributor to Jenkins and the primary contact for Jenkins project infrastructure. He is also a Jenkins Evangelist at CloudBees, Inc. When the Ruby on Rails framework debuted it changed the industry in two noteworthy ways: it created a trend of opinionated web application frameworks (Django, Play, Grails) and it also strongly encouraged thousands of developers to embrace test-driven development along...

This blog post is a continuation of the External Workspace Manager Plugin related posts, starting with the introductory blog post, and followed by the alpha version release announcement. As the title suggests, the beta version of the External Workspace Manager Plugin was launched! This means that it’s available only in the Experimental Plugins Update Center. Take care when installing plugins from the Experimental Update Center, since they may change in backward-incompatible...

This is a guest post by Michael Neale, long time open source developer and contributor to the Blue Ocean project. If you are running parts of your pipeline on Linux, possibly the easiest way to get a clean reusable environment is to use: CloudBees Docker Pipeline plugin. In this short post I wanted to show how you can avoid installing stuff on the agents, and have per project, or even per...