Last year’s JUC West 2014 was packed with good gems of information – such as "how we did it" talks where the speakers shared their points of view on the tools they use for automating their pipeline. At JUC and other conferences I especially seek out talks about how others implement their Continuous Delivery processes. At the upcoming JUC West 2015, it is my...

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...

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...

https://youtu.be/1Qn4jEwAeGc Above is the screencast associated with this blog post If you have ever used Jenkins you are familiar with what I am about to described, wading your way through job configuration page, looking for the settings that are important, and, depending on your plugin use, wondering where all these other setting came from and what they do. Depending on how long you have used Jenkins, your...

I am very much looking forward to the Jenkins User Conference in London where I will present our insights on how to use Jenkins in a PHP related environment. Moving to Jenkins about 5 years ago bitExpert gained a lot of experience in running and managing a distributed Jenkins infrastructure. bitExpert builds custom applications for our clients which means that we have to deal...