This is a guest post by Patrick Wolf, Director of Product Management at CloudBees. Recently the Pipeline team began making several changes to improve the stage step and increase control of concurrent builds in Pipeline. Until now the stage step has been the catch-all for functionality related to the flow of builds through the Pipeline: grouping build steps into visualized stages, limiting concurrent builds, and discarding...

At Jenkins World on Wednesday 14th of September, the Jenkins project was happy to introduce the beta release of Blue Ocean. Blue Ocean is the new user experience for Jenkins, built from the ground up to take advantage of Jenkins Pipeline. It is an entire rethink of the the way that modern developers will use Jenkins. Blue Ocean is available today via the Jenkins Update Center for Jenkins...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Testing web applications across multiple browsers on different platforms can be challenging even for smaller applications. With Jenkins and the Sauce OnDemand Plugin, you can wrangle that complexity by defining your Pipeline as Code. Pipeline ♥ UI Testing, Too I recently started looking for a way to do browser UI testing for an open-source JavaScript project to which I...

This blog post is the last one from the series of Google Summer of Code 2016, External Workspace Manager Plugin project. The previous posts are: Introductory blog post Alpha release announcement Beta release announcement In this post I would like to announce the 1.0.0 release of the External Workspace Manager Plugin version to the main update center. Here’s a highlight of the available features: Workspace share and reuse across multiple jobs, running on...

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. When the Ruby on Rails framework debuted it changed the industry in two noteworthy ways: it created a trend of opinionated web application frameworks (Django, Play, Grails) and it also strongly encouraged thousands of developers to embrace test-driven development along...

This blog post is a continuation of the External Workspace Manager Plugin related posts, starting with the introductory blog post, and followed by the alpha version release announcement. As the title suggests, the beta version of the External Workspace Manager Plugin was launched! This means that it’s available only in the Experimental Plugins Update Center. Take care when installing plugins from the Experimental Update Center, since they may change in backward-incompatible...

This is a guest post by Michael Neale, long time open source developer and contributor to the Blue Ocean project. If you are running parts of your pipeline on Linux, possibly the easiest way to get a clean reusable environment is to use: CloudBees Docker Pipeline plugin. In this short post I wanted to show how you can avoid installing stuff on the agents, and have per project, or even per...

The team have been hard at work moving the needle forward on the Blue Ocean 1.0 features. Many of the features we have been working on have come a long way in the past few months but here’s a few highlights: Goodbye page refreshes, Hello Real Time updates! Building upon Tom's great work on Server Sent Events (SSE) both Cliff and Tom worked on making the all the screens in Blue Ocean update...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Rather than sitting and watching Jenkins for job status, I want Jenkins to send notifications when events occur. There are Jenkins plugins for Slack, HipChat, or even email among others. Note: Something is happening! I think we can all agree getting notified when events occur is preferable to having to constantly monitor them just in case. I’m going to continue...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Most projects need more that just JUnit result reporting. Rather than writing a custom plugin for each type of report, we can use the HTML Publisher Plugin. Let’s Make This Quick I’ve found a Ruby project, hermann, I’d like to build using Jenkins Pipeline. I’d also like to have the code coverage results published with each build job. ...