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• Migrating from chained Freestyle jobs to Pipelines

  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,...

  

  R. Tyler Croy June 29, 2016
• Faster Pipelines with the Parallel Test Executor Plugin

  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...

  

  Liam Newman June 16, 2016
• New display of Pipeline’s "snippet generator"

  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...

  Jesse Glick May 31, 2016
• Introducing Blue Ocean: a new user experience for Jenkins

  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...

  James Dumay May 26, 2016
• Refactoring a Jenkins plugin for compatibility with Pipeline jobs

  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...

  Chris Price May 25, 2016
• GSoC Project Intro: External Workspace Manager Plugin

  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...

  Alexandru Somai May 23, 2016
• Pipeline 2.x plugins

  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...

  Jesse Glick April 22, 2016
• Making your own DSL with plugins, written in Pipeline script

  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...

  

  Michael Neale April 21, 2016
• The Need For Jenkins Pipeline

  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....

  

  R. Tyler Croy April 15, 2016