Note: This is a guest post by Kishore Bhatia. Kishore works for CloudBees, building custom frameworks with Open Source software and helping customers solve engineering problems around continuous delivery and DevOps at scale. This year some great new Jenkins features came out of the butler’s goodie bag - amongst them, the most important one being the ability to realize continuous delivery pipeline as code! The features...

This is a guest post by Manuel Recena Soto (aka recena). Users of the plug-in know that it has undergone very important changes in the last two years. Unfortunately, some of these changes resulted in regressions for some users that weren’t properly addressed in subsequent releases. Many users were therefore forced to keep using an older release of the plugin to keep their instances running. To fix...

This is a guest post by Kirill Merkushev at Yandex. I met him at JUC Europe where he showed me the project he was working on: Juseppe. It looked really interesting, so I asked him to write this guest post. When you write your first custom Jenkins plugin for internal use, it’s easy enough to deploy it on one or maybe two Jenkins instances. You...

This is a guest post from Owen Mehegan (aka autojack) In 2014 Google announced that they will be shutting down their OpenID 2.0 authentication endpoint and replacing it with Google+ Sign-in, a library built on top of OpenID Connect. The old Google endpoint will shut down on April 20th, 2015! Accordingly, if you are using the Jenkins OpenID plugin to authenticate users with the ‘Google...

This is a guest post by Craig Rodrigues The FreeBSD project produces a modern operating system derived from BSD Unix. In the past 6 months, we have set up Jenkins at https://jenkins.freebsd.org/, to continuously build FreeBSD as developers add new code to the project. This has helped us identify and fix build breaks very quickly. We have gone even farther by integrating Jenkins, Kyua, and Bhyve. Kyua is a...

(This is a guest post from Daniel Spilker) Jenkins supports building plugins using Gradle for a while now. Last week a new version of the Gradle JPI plugin has been released to iron out some issues. The Gradle JPI plugin enables a 100% groovy plugin development environment with Groovy as primary programming language, Spock for writing tests and Gradle as build system. Have a look at...

This is a guest post from Tom Fennelly Over the last number of weeks we’ve been trying to "refresh" the Jenkins UI, modernizing the look and feel a bit. This has been a real community effort, with collaboration from lots of people, both in terms of implementation and in terms of providing honest/critical feedback. Lots of people deserve credit but, in particular, a big thanks...

This is a guest post from Adam Henriques. On August 22nd Jenkins CI enthusiasts will gather in Copenhagen, Denmark for the 3rd consecutive year for a day of networking and knowledge sharing. Over the past two years the event has grown and this year we are expecting a record number of participants representing Jenkins CI experts, enthusiasts, and users from all over the world. The Jenkins...

(This is a guest post from Gareth Bowles, a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix.) Jenkins has been a central part of the Netflix build and deploy infrastructure for several years now, and we’ve been attending and speaking at JUC since it started in 2011. It’s a great opportunity to meet people who are as passionate about build, test and deployment automation as we are -...

This is a guest post by Mike Rowan, VP R&D at SendGrid. Q: Tell us a bit about what your service and plugin do. Who is it for? What are the highlights of your plugin? A: Loader.io is a simple-to-use cloud-based load testing service. The service is designed for developers and people who need to ensure applications are performing as they should. It allows developers to...