Developing Enterprise-Ready Plugins My greatest surprise at JUC 2014 in Boston was how many enterprise Jenkins CI users had developed plugins for their own use. I had not pictured enterprise release managers as plugin developers. Here at Black Duck Software, we developed Jenkins plugins for four years running. Fabrice Solami, a sales engineer, wanted to do more than automate our code scanning tool via a...

The Jenkins Newsletter is out a bit early this quarter. If you are not signed up to receive it via email, check out Volume 9 here. You will be connected to all sorts of Jenkins resources from Jenkins training sessions, to some Jenkins User Conference news, to how Jenkins works with Kubernetes and Docker. I hope that you enjoy this issue! Please let me know what...

Nicolas De Loof will host an office hour next Wednesday 11 AM PDT on integrating Kubernetes with Jenkins. Kubernetes is an open-source project by Google that provides a platform for managing Docker containers as a cluster. During this session, Nicolas will introduce Kubernetes, explain how it can benefit Jenkins and demonstrate the Kubernetes Plugin. Then he will discuss the design of the Kubernetes plugin and plans...

Join Me at JUC West to Discuss Building an Enterprise Continuous Delivery Machine with Jenkins After a great event on the East Coast in June, now over to the West Coast for another exciting Jenkins User Conference! I'll be there for JUC West on September 2-3 with the XebiaLabs team, and am looking forward to talking to the Jenkins users, partners, developers and community members...

I recently wrote about the two day outage of our wiki and issue tracker: While this was a rather lengthy outage, it could have been much worse. We lost none of the data, after all. OSUOSL have since published their post mortem. I was really wrong about not losing any data: A further complication was that our backups were pointed at mysql2, which...

Jesse Glick will host the next office hour this Wednesday, 11 AM PDT on Workflow. Workflow has been Jesse's project for the last year or so. If you don't know what Workflow is, check out these talks about it from past JUCes: June 2014 October 2014 June 2015 This will be a developer-focused session on integrating with Workflow. He'll discuss things like how...

Mobile is Joining the Party At This Year’s Jenkins User Conference Consider this as a shout out to mobile app developers: You are invited! For the first time, there’s a mobile track at this year’s Jenkins User Conference to discuss the best ways to extend CI/CD to mobile application testing. As agile practices take hold, enterprises are expecting more collaboration between dev and test teams. Dev...

As you may have noticed, our wiki and issue tracker were unavailable from Thursday to Sunday last week. What happened? We host parts of our infrastructure at the Open Source Lab at Oregon State (OSUOSL), including the databases for these two services. So far, there's no post mortem by OSUOSL (they expect to post one later this week), so we need to piece together what...