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...

Last week we released the latest version of Declarative Pipelines, version 1.2.8. With that out, we thought now would be a good time to introduce you to the new features and options that have been added to Declarative since the beginning of 2018. These are all available now in the Update Center, with version 1.2.8. Declarative Directive Generator This is something we’re really happy about - if you go to...

This is a guest post by Philip Stroh, Software Architect at TimoCom. When building multiple microservices - e.g. with Spring Boot - the integration and delivery pipelines of your services will most likely be very similar. Surely, you don’t want to copy-and-paste Pipeline code from one Jenkinsfile to another if you develop a new service or if there are adaptions in your delivery process. Instead you would like to define...

After a few months of work on its key features, I’m happy to announce the 1.2 release of Declarative Pipeline! On behalf of the contributors developing Pipeline, I thought it would be helpful to discuss three of the key changes. Parallel Stages First, we’ve added syntax support for parallel stages. In earlier versions of Declarative Pipeline, the only way to run chunks of Pipeline code in parallel was to use the parallel...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Declare Your Pipelines! Declarative Pipeline 1.0 is here! This is the fourth post in a series showing some of the cool features of Declarative Pipeline. In the previous post, we integrated several notification services into a Declarative Pipeline. We kept our Pipeline clean and easy to understand by using a shared library to make a custom step called sendNotifications that we called at...

Back in September 2016 we announced the availability of the Blue Ocean beta and the forthcoming Visual Pipeline Editor. We are happy to announce that you can try the Pipeline Editor preview release today. What is it? The Visual Pipeline Editor is the simplest way for anyone wanting to get started with creating Pipelines in Jenkins. It’s also a great way for advanced Jenkins users to start adopting pipeline. It...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Declare Your Pipelines! Declarative Pipeline 1.0 is here! This is the third post in a series showing some of the cool features of Declarative Pipeline. In the previous post, we converted a Scripted Pipeline to a Declarative Pipeline, adding descriptive stages and post sections. In one of those post blocks, we included a placeholder for sending notifications. In this blog post, we’ll...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Declare Your Pipelines! Declarative Pipeline 1.0 is here! This is the second post in a series showing some of the cool features of Declarative Pipeline. In the previous blog post, we created a simple Declarative Pipeline. In this blog post, we’ll go back and look at the Scripted Pipeline for the Publishing HTML Reports in Pipeline blog post. We’ll convert that Pipeline to...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Declare Your Pipelines! Declarative Pipeline 1.0 is here! This is first in a series of blog posts that will show some of the cool features of Declarative Pipeline. For several of these posts, I’ll be revisiting some of my previous posts on using various plugins with (Scripted) Pipeline, and seeing how those are implemented in Declarative Pipeline. To start though, let’s get...