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...

Those of you updating the Pipeline Groovy plugin to 2.3 or later will notice a change to the appearance of the configuration form. The Snippet Generator tool is no longer a checkbox enabled inside the configuration page. Rather, there is a link Pipeline Syntax which opens a separate page with several options. (The link appears in the project’s sidebar; Jenkins 2 users will not see the sidebar from...

In recent years developers have become rapidly attracted to tools that are not only functional but are designed to fit into their workflow seamlessly and are a joy to use. This shift represents a higher standard of design and user experience that Jenkins needs to rise to meet. We are excited to share and invite the community to join us on a project we’ve been thinking about over the...

About me My name is Samat Davletshin and I am from HSE University from Moscow, Russia. I interned at Intel and Yandex, and cofounded a startup project where I personally developed front-end and back-end of the website. I am excited to participate in GSoC with Jenkins this summer as a chanсe to make a positive change for thousands of users as well as to learn from great mentors. Abstract Although powerful,...

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...

I am pleased to announce that we have partnered with Microsoft to migrate and power the Jenkins project’s infrastructure with Microsoft Azure. The partnership comes at an important time, after the recent launch of Jenkins 2.0, Jenkins users are more readily adopting Pipeline as Code and many other plugins at an increasing rate, elevating the importance of Jenkins infrastructure to the overall success of the project. That strong and continued growth...