This is a guest post by R. Tyler Croy, who is a long-time contributor to Jenkins and the primary contact for Jenkins project infrastructure. He is also a Jenkins Evangelist at CloudBees, Inc. I find the topic of "scaling Jenkins" to be incredibly interesting because, more often than not, scaling Jenkins isn’t just about scaling a single instance but rather scaling an organization and its continuous delivery processes. In many cases...

At this year’s Jenkins World, our events officer Alyssa has been working to organize various activities in the "Open Source Hub" on the expo floor. Both days of the conference (Sept. 14th and 15th), during the break for lunch, there will be 15 minute demos by many of the experts helping to staff the Open Source Hub. Demo Schedule Wednesday, September 14th Time Session Details Presenter 12:15 - 12:30 Blue Ocean in Action Showcase of Blue Ocean and...

This is a guest post by Jenkins World speaker David Hinske, Release Engineer at Goodgame Studios. Hey there, my name is David Hinske and I work at Goodgame Studios (GGS), a game development company in Hamburg, Germany. As Release Engineer in a company with several development teams, it comes in handy using several Jenkins instances. While this approach works fine in our company and gives the developers a lot...

Our events officer Alyssa has been working for the past several weeks to organize the "Open Source Hub" at Jenkins World 2016. The Hub is a location on the expo floor where contributors to the Jenkins project can hang out, share demos and help Jenkins users via the "Ask the Experts" program. Thus far we have a great list of experts who have volunteered to help staff the booth, which...

At Jenkins World 2016 on September 14-15, stop by the "Open Source Hub", located in the Partner Expo hall at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. The Open Source Hub will have many Jenkins contributors, committers, JAM leaders, and officers from the governance board under one roof, so there will be plenty of knowledge and talents on hand to share. We hope you’ll join in on the...

This is a guest post by Jenkins World speaker Neil Hunt, Senior DevOps Architect at Aquilent. In smaller companies with a handful of apps and fewer silos, implementing CD pipelines to support these apps is fairly straightforward using one of the many delivery orchestration tools available today. There is likely a constrained tool set to support - not an abundance of flavors of applications and security practices - and...

This is a guest post by Ben Patterson, Engineering Manager at edX. Picking a pear from a basket is straightforward when you can hold it in your hand, feel its weight, perhaps give a gentle squeeze, observe its color and look more closely at any bruises. If the only information we had was a photograph from one angle, we’d have to do some educated guessing. As...

Jenkins World, September 13-15 at the Santa Clara Convention Center (SCCC), takes our 6th annual community user conference to a whole new level. It will be one big party for everything Jenkins, from users to developers, from the community to vendors. There will be more of what people always loved in past user conferences, such as technical sessions from users and developers, the Ask the Experts booth and plugin development...

This is a guest post by Alyssa Tong. Alyssa works for CloudBees, helping to organize Jenkins community events around the world. Jenkins World 2016 will be the largest gathering of Jenkins users in the world. This event will bring together Jenkins experts, continuous delivery thought leaders and the ecosystem offering complementary technologies for Jenkins. Join us September 13-15, 2016 in Santa Clara, California to learn and explore, network...