At Jenkins World last month, we continued the tradition of "lunch-time demos" in the Jenkins project’s booth which we started in 2016. We invited a number of Jenkins contributors to present brief 10-15 minute demos on something they were working on, or considered themselves experts in. Continuing the post-Jenkins World tradition, we also just hosted a "Jenkins Online Meetup" featuring a selection of those lunch-time demos. I would like...

Earlier this month, a full-day event about Jenkins Pipeline was organized in Toulouse, France with the Toulouse JAM. After a warm-up on the previous Tuesday where Michaël Pailloncy had given a talk at the local Toulouse Devops user group about Jenkins Pipeline ecosystem, we were ready for more digging :-). The agenda We had planned the day in two parts: Morning would be a more driven workshop with...

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say: 2016 was the best year yet for the Jenkins project. Since the first commit in 2006, the project has reached a number of significant milestones in its ten years but we have never experienced the breadth of major milestones in such a short amount of time. From Jenkins 2 and Blue Ocean to the Google Summer of Code and Jenkins World, I wanted to take...

As we near the end of the year, the number of November JAMs show that the Jenkins community isn’t slowing down for holiday season. We had a number of excellent events hosted around the world this November with plenty of great stories and presentations shared by the various members of the world-wide Jenkins community. Melbourne, Australia JAM Melbourne JAM leaders, Raisa and Bhuva hosted Blue Ocean for the inaugural meeting. Attendees learned the values...

Happy Holidays! A special shout out to all JAM leaders who continue to keep local activities going in December. Online JAM December 14 | Live Demos: Pipeline, Git, and Blue Ocean North America December 7 | Seattle JAM: Jenkins at Microsoft December 14 | Los Angeles JAM: Jenkins Days December 14 | Guadalajara JAM: Jenkins & Docker Australia December 14 | Melbourne JAM: Meeting at AWS Office Links Start a JAM in your city if...

November is packed full of meetups and events. If you are in any of the areas below please stop by to say "Hi" and talk Jenkins over beer. North America November 15 | SF JAM: Let’s Talk CI/CD and DevOps with ClusterHQ and Jenkins November 15 | DC JAM: Jenkins and Fannie Mae November 30 | Albuquerque JAM: Learn About Blue Ocean November 30 | Guadalajara JAM: Jenkins Install and...

I would like to write about two last Jenkins Meetups in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Meetup #3. Jenkins Administration (May 20, 2016) In May we had a meetup about Jenkins administration techniques. At this meetup we were talking about common Jenkins ecosystem components like custom update centers, tool repositories and generic jobs. Talks: Kirill Merkushev, Yandex, "Juseppe. A custom Update Center for Jenkins" Presentation (rus) Keywords: Juseppe Anna Muravieva, EMC, "Generic jobs in Jenkins....

It is hard to believe that the first half of 2016 is almost over and summer is just around the corner. As usual, there are plenty of educational Jenkins events planned for this month. Below lists what’s happening in your neck of the woods: Online JAM June 14: Plugin Development - Basics North America JAMs June 14: Pipeline in a Windows Environment - Boston, Massachusetts June 15: Open Source Jenkins 2.0,...

A few weeks ago, my colleague Brian Dawson and I were invited to present on Scaling Jenkins for Continuous Delivery with Microsoft Azure in Microsoft’s Reactor space. Azure is Microsoft’s public cloud offering and one of the many tools available to Jenkins users for adding elastic compute capacity, among other things, to their build/test/deploy infrastructure. While our presentations are applicable to practically any cloud-based Jenkins environment, Thiago Almeida and Oguz Pastirmaci from Microsoft...

Last week we hosted our first ever Online JAM with the debut topic of: Jenkins 2.0. Alyssa, our Events officer, and I pulled together a series of sessions focusing on some of the most notable aspects of Jenkins 2 with: A Jenkins 2.0 keynote from project founder Kohsuke Kawaguchi An overview of "Pipeline as Code" from Patrick Wolf A deep-dive into Pipeline and related plugins like Multibranch, etc from Jesse Glick and Kishore Bhatia An overview of...