I often find myself needing to run the same actions on a bunch of different configurations. Up to now, that meant I had to make multiple copies of the same stages in my pipelines. When I needed to make changes, I had to make the same changes in multiple places throughout my pipeline. Maintaining even a small number of configuration was difficult for larger pipelines. Declarative Pipeline 1.5.0-beta1...

FOSDEM 2019 (February 2 & 3) is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. It is an annual event that brings open source contributors from around the world for two days of presentations, discussions, and learning. While the Jenkins project won’t have a table at FOSDEM 2019, we will be well represented before, during, and after the event. Friday Day - Workshops...

The time has come - KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 has arrived. The conference has completely sold out and the schedule is jam packed with interesting talks. If you’re among those with tickets, here are a couple Jenkins related events that might interest you: On Wednesday at 3:40pm, Carlos Sanchez will be presenting Jenkins X: Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes in Tahoma 3/4 @ TCC. On Tuesday at 2:35pm, Jonathan...

DevOps World | Jenkins World 2018 in San Francisco is only a month away. It is shaping up to be a great event including the Contributor Summit, the "Ask the Experts" desk at the Jenkin booth, several days of training and certifications, and tons of informative presentation and demos. To give you a taste of what you’ll see this year at DevOps World | Jenkins World 2018, we’ve lined...

On the first weekend in February, numerous free and open source developers from around the world will travel to Brussels, Belgium, for arguably the largest event of its kind: FOSDEM. Among the thousands of hackers in attendance will be a number of Jenkins contributors. On the Monday after FOSDEM, you are invited to join a group of those contributors for a full day of hacking on Jenkins. Folks of all...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. There are less than three weeks left until Jenkins World 2017. Like last year, I’ll be at the "Ask the Experts" booth to answer questions about all things Jenkins. In preparation, I’ve started a continuing series of quick tutorial videos that answer some of the most common questions I’ve seen asked in the community forums. These are by no means...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. I’ve only been working with Pipeline for about a year. Pipeline in and of itself has been a huge improvement over old-style Jenkins projects. As a developer, it has been so great be able work with Jenkins Pipelines using the same tools I use for writing any other kind of code. I’ve also found a number of tools...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Blue Ocean is a new user experience for Jenkins, and version 1.0 is now live! Blue Ocean makes Jenkins, and continuous delivery, approachable to all team members. In my previous post, I used the Blue Ocean Activity View to track the state of branches and Pull Requests in one project. In this video, I’ll use the Blue Ocean Dashboard get...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Blue Ocean is a new user experience for Jenkins, and version 1.0 is now live! Blue Ocean makes Jenkins, and continuous delivery, approachable to all team members. In my previous post, I showed how easy it is to create and edit Declarative Pipelines using the Blue Ocean Visual Pipeline Editor. In this video, I’ll use the Blue Ocean Activity...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Blue Ocean is a new user experience for Jenkins, and version 1.0 is now live! Blue Ocean makes Jenkins, and continuous delivery, approachable to all team members. In my previous post, I explained how to install Blue Ocean on your local Jenkins instance and switch to using Blue Ocean. As promised, here’s a screencast that picks up where that...