Currently it’s quite difficult to share and reuse the same workspace between multiple jobs and across nodes. There are some possible workarounds for achieving this, but each of them has its own drawback, e.g. stash/unstash pre-made artifacts, Copy Artifacts plugin or advanced job settings. A viable solution for this problem is the External Workspace Manager plugin, which facilitates workspace share and reuse across multiple Jenkins jobs and nodes. It...

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. For ages I have used the "Build After" feature in Jenkins to cobble together what one might refer to as a "pipeline" of sorts. The Jenkins project itself, a major consumer of Jenkins, has used these daisy-chained...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. In this blog post, I’ll show you how to speed up your pipeline by using the Parallel Test Executor Plugin. So much to do, so little time…​ In my career, I’ve helped many teams move to continuous integration and delivery. One problem we always encounter is how to run all the tests needed to ensure high-quality changes while still...

Those of you updating the Pipeline Groovy plugin to 2.3 or later will notice a change to the appearance of the configuration form. The Snippet Generator tool is no longer a checkbox enabled inside the configuration page. Rather, there is a link Pipeline Syntax which opens a separate page with several options. (The link appears in the project’s sidebar; Jenkins 2 users will not see the sidebar from...

In recent years developers have become rapidly attracted to tools that are not only functional but are designed to fit into their workflow seamlessly and are a joy to use. This shift represents a higher standard of design and user experience that Jenkins needs to rise to meet. We are excited to share and invite the community to join us on a project we’ve been thinking about over the...

This is a guest post by Chris Price. Chris is a software engineer at Puppet, and has been spending some time lately on automating performance testing using the latest Jenkins features. In this blog post, I’m going to attempt to provide some step-by-step notes on how to refactor an existing Jenkins plugin to make it compatible with the new Jenkins Pipeline jobs. Before we get to the fun stuff,...

About myself My name is Alexandru Somai. I’m following a major in Software Engineering at the Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. I have more than two years hands-on experience working in Software Development. I enjoy writing code in Java, Groovy and JavaScript. The technologies and frameworks that I’m most familiar with are: Spring Framework, Spring Security, Hibernate, JMS, Web Services, JUnit, TestNG, Mockito. As build tools and continuous integration, I’m using...

Those of you who routinely apply all plugin updates may already have noticed that the version numbers of the plugins in the Pipeline suite have switched to a 2.x scheme. Besides aligning better with the upcoming Jenkins 2.0 core release, the plugins are now being released with independent lifecycles. “Pipeline 1.15” (the last in the 1.x line) included simultaneous releases of a dozen or so...

In this post I will show how you can make your own DSL extensions and distribute them as a plugin, using Pipeline Script. A quick refresher Pipeline has a well kept secret: the ability to add your own DSL elements. Pipeline is itself a DSL, but you can extend it. There are 2 main reasons I can think you may want to do this: You want to reduce boilerplate by...

This is a cross-post of an article authored by Viktor Farcic on the CloudBees blog. Viktor is also the author of The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit, which explores Jenkins, the Pipeline plugin, and the ecosystem around it in much more detail. Over the years, Jenkins has become the undisputed ruler among continuous integration (CI), delivery and deployment (CD) tools. It, in a way, defined the CI/CD processes we use today. As a result of...