This blog post is part 1 of a Configuration-as-Code series Jenkins is highly flexible and is today the de facto standard for implementing CI/CD, with an active community to maintain plugins for almost any combination of tools and use-cases. But flexibility has a cost: in addition to Jenkins core, many plugins require some system-level configuration to be set so they can do their job. In some circumstances,...

More and more today, continuous delivery (CD) pipelines are making use of containers. In many implementations, the primary workflow/orchestration tool for CD pipelines is Jenkins. And the primary container orchestration tool is Docker. Together these two applications provide a powerful, yet simple to understand and use, model for leveraging containers in your CD pipeline. When creating a pipeline script in Jenkins, there are multiple ways to incorporate Docker...

DevOps World | Jenkins World 2018 in San Francisco is only a month away. It is shaping up to be a great event including the Contributor Summit, the "Ask the Experts" desk at the Jenkin booth, several days of training and certifications, and tons of informative presentation and demos. To give you a taste of what you’ll see this year at DevOps World | Jenkins World 2018, we’ve lined...