A few years ago, the Jenkins community announced the Jenkins CIA program - the Continuous Integration Ambassador initiative to spread the word of Jenkins. As of recently, there hasn’t been as much activity, so this program needs to be revived! There are over 120,000 active Jenkins installations now and that number just keeps climbing and climbing. It’s important to bring all of us together through...

Cloud Native and the benefits to Continuous Delivery (CD) Pipelines There’s a lot of discussion lately around Cloud Native. If this term is new to you, I suggest a quick read of Cloud Native: What it Means and Why it Matters? From my perspective, Cloud Native offers tremendous benefit to enterprise companies, startups and developers looking to add value quickly or capture market share. Cloud...

Developing Enterprise-Ready Plugins My greatest surprise at JUC 2014 in Boston was how many enterprise Jenkins CI users had developed plugins for their own use. I had not pictured enterprise release managers as plugin developers. Here at Black Duck Software, we developed Jenkins plugins for four years running. Fabrice Solami, a sales engineer, wanted to do more than automate our code scanning tool via a...

The Jenkins Newsletter is out a bit early this quarter. If you are not signed up to receive it via email, check out Volume 9 here. You will be connected to all sorts of Jenkins resources from Jenkins training sessions, to some Jenkins User Conference news, to how Jenkins works with Kubernetes and Docker. I hope that you enjoy this issue! Please let me know what...

Join Me at JUC West to Discuss Building an Enterprise Continuous Delivery Machine with Jenkins After a great event on the East Coast in June, now over to the West Coast for another exciting Jenkins User Conference! I’ll be there for JUC West on September 2-3 with the XebiaLabs team, and am looking forward to talking to the Jenkins users, partners, developers and community members...

Mobile is Joining the Party At This Year’s Jenkins User Conference Consider this as a shout out to mobile app developers: You are invited! For the first time, there’s a mobile track at this year’s Jenkins User Conference to discuss the best ways to extend CI/CD to mobile application testing. As agile practices take hold, enterprises are expecting more collaboration between dev and test teams. Dev...

It seems a bit unreal, but the last JUC agenda for 2015 is now online. Jenkins User Conference U.S. West is the last JUC of the year running from September 2-3 in Santa Clara, CA. So, if you haven’t attended JUC yet this year, this is your chance! Register with a friend to take advantage of the community’s 2-for-1 deal and get two tickets for...

Slides and video from JUC Europe are now available online! If you made it to London to attend this year’s JUC Europe, I hope you enjoyed the conference, met plenty of community members and learned more about Jenkins. Now that the slides and video are up, you can revisit your favorite talks or "attend" the ones that you missed…​all at your leisure. If you were unable...

Slides and video from JUC U.S. East are now available online! If you attended the conference, THANK YOU, and I’m sure you had fun, learned a lot and met many people from the Jenkins community. Now you can revisit your favorite talks or "attend" the ones that you missed. If you were unable to attend JUC U.S. East, you now have the slides and video so...

For the 4th consecutive year the Jenkins CI community is gathering in Scandinavia. JUES inspires both current as well as soon-to-be Jenkins users to network and harness inspiration from peers and experts on best practice and implementation of Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and agile development with Jenkins. As always we’ll precede the JUES conference with a Code Camp on the day before. The Code Camp...