Table of Contents The Problem Code Duplication And Security A Branch Is Not A Feature Documentation The Solution Code Duplication And Security A Branch Is Not A Feature Documentation This post will describe some common problems I’ve had with Jenkins and how I solved them by developing Generic Webhook Trigger Plugin. The Problem I was often struggling with the same issues when working with Jenkins: Code duplication and security - Jenkinsfiles in every repository. A branch is...

In this post I wanted to show how you can run Jenkins behind a firewall (which could be a corporate firewall, a NAT’ed network like you have at home) but still receive webhooks in real time from GitHub.com. You can generalise this to other services too - such as BitBucket or DockerHub, or anything really that emits webhooks, but the instructions will be for...