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Pipeline Steps Documentation Generator Improvements

About Pipeline Steps Documentation Generator Improvements is a project under Google Summer of Code 2022, and this project aims to improve the steps documentation generated for Pipeline jobs, which is used by thousands of Pipeline developers worldwide. Some initial parts of the project involved changes to the UI of the website. I spent most of the community bonding period thinking about possible improvements,...

Vihaan Thora October 10, 2022
Use Just Enough Pipeline

Jenkins Pipeline (or simply Pipeline with a capital P) is a suite of plugins that supports implementing and integrating continuous delivery pipelines into Jenkins. This allows you to automate the process of getting software from version control through to your users and customers. Pipeline code works beautifully for its intended role of automating build, test, deploy, and administration tasks. But, as it is...

Mark Waite
Darin Pope October 26, 2021
Easily reuse Tekton and Jenkins X from Jenkins

What is Tekton? Tekton is a powerful and flexible open-source framework for creating CI/CD systems, allowing developers to build, test, and deploy across cloud providers and on-premises systems. Why use Tekton? Tekton pipelines have a number of benefits: they are cloud native and designed from the ground up for kubernetes each Tekton Pipeline is fully declarative and completely self described; it does not depend on...

James Strachan April 21, 2021
A sustainable pattern with shared library

Table of Contents Context The Problems The Solution Shared Library Duplication Documentation Scalability Installation Agnostic Feature Toggling This post will describe how I use a shared library in Jenkins. Typically when using multibranch pipeline. If possible (if not forced to) I implement the pipelines without multibranch. I previously wrote about how I do that with my Generic Webhook Trigger Plugin in a previous post. But this will be my second choice,...

Tomas Bjerre October 21, 2020
GitHub App authentication support released

This blogpost was updated to reflect the general availability of the feature after the release of GitHub Branch Source 2.7.1 on April 26th, 2020. I’m excited to announce support for authenticating as a GitHub app in Jenkins. This has been a long awaited feature by many users. It has been released in GitHub Branch Source 2.7.1 which is now available in the Jenkins...

Tim Jacomb April 16, 2020
Introducing the Azure Key Vault Credentials Provider for Jenkins

Azure Key Vault is a product for securely managing keys, secrets and certificates. I’m happy to announce two new features in the Azure Key Vault plugin: a credential provider to tightly link Jenkins and Azure Key Vault. huge thanks to Jie Shen for contributing this integration with the configuration-as-code plugin. These changes were released in v1.8 but make sure to run the latest version of...

Tim Jacomb March 30, 2020
Atlassian's new Bitbucket Server integration for Jenkins

We know that for many of our customers Jenkins is incredibly important and its integration with Bitbucket Server is a key part of their development workflow. Unfortunately, we also know that integrating Bitbucket Server with Jenkins wasn’t always easy – it may have required multiple plugins and considerable time. That’s why earlier this year we set out to change this. We began building...

Daniel Kjellin January 8, 2020
Generic Webhook Trigger Plugin

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...

Tomas Bjerre December 14, 2019
Introducing the AWS Secrets Manager Credentials Provider for Jenkins

API keys and secrets are difficult to handle safely, and probably something you avoid thinking about. In this post I’ll show how the new AWS Secrets Manager Credentials Provider plugin allows you to marshal your secrets into one place, and use them securely from Jenkins. When CI/CD pipelines moved to the public cloud, credential management did not evolve with them. If...

Chris Kilding December 10, 2019