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...

This is a guest post by Patrick Wolf, Director of Product Management at CloudBees and contributor to the Jenkins project. I am very excited to announce the addition of Declarative Pipeline syntax 1.0 to Jenkins Pipeline. We think this new syntax will enable everyone involved in DevOps, regardless of expertise, to participate in the continuous delivery process. Whether creating, editing or reviewing a pipeline, having a straightforward structure helps to understand and predict the flow of the...

This is a guest post by Sam Van Oort, Software Engineer at CloudBees and contributor to the Jenkins project. Today I’m going to show you best practices to write scalable and robust Jenkins Pipelines. This is drawn from a combination of work with the internals of Pipeline and observations with large-scale users. Pipeline code works beautifully for its intended role of automating build/test/deploy/administer tasks. As it is pressed into...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Introduction With all the new developments in Jenkins Pipeline (and Declarative Pipeline on the horizon), it’s easy to forget what we did to create "pipelines" before Pipeline. There are number of plugins, some that have been around since the very beginning, that enable users to create "pipelines" in Jenkins. For example, basic job chaining worked well in many cases, and the Parameterized Trigger...

This week, we released the second beta of the new Declarative Pipeline syntax, available in the Update Center now as version 0.8.1 of Pipeline: Model Definition. You can read more about Declarative Pipeline in the blog post introducing the first beta from December, but we wanted to update you all on the syntax changes in the second beta. These syntax changes are the last compatibility-breaking changes to the syntax before the...

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say: 2016 was the best year yet for the Jenkins project. Since the first commit in 2006, the project has reached a number of significant milestones in its ten years but we have never experienced the breadth of major milestones in such a short amount of time. From Jenkins 2 and Blue Ocean to the Google Summer of Code and Jenkins World, I wanted to take...

This is a guest post by Carl Caum, who works at Puppet and created the Puppet Enterprise Pipeline plugin. During PuppetConf 2016, myself and Brian Dawson from CloudBees announced the plugin:puppet-enterprise-pipeline[Puppet Enterprise plugin for Jenkins Pipeline]. Let’s take a look at how the plugin makes it trivial to use Puppet to perform some or all of the deployment tasks in continuous delivery pipelines. Jenkins Pipeline introduced an amazing world where the definition...

Last week we released version 0.7.1 of the Pipeline-Model-Definition plugin and wanted to crown it as the official Beta version of the Declarative Pipeline syntax. Although it has been available in the update center since August, we continue to solidify the syntax. We feel this release is getting very close to the final version and should not change much before 1.0. However, it is still a Beta so further tweaks are...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. The JUnit plugin is the go-to test result reporter for many Jenkins projects, but the it is not the only one available. The xUnit plugin is a viable alternative that supports JUnit and many other test result file formats. Introduction No matter the project, you need to gather and report test results. JUnit is one of the most widely supported formats...