A few months ago I published a blog post about Cloud Native Special Interest Group (SIG) and ongoing projects related to Cloud Native Jenkins. Next week we will be presenting at DevOps World | Jenkins World together with Carlos Sanchez and Jesse Glick, so I would like to provide a heads up for our talk: “A Cloud Native Jenkins”. In our talk, we will focus on the following topics: Pluggable Storage, our...

This is a guest post by Brian Dawson on behalf of CloudBees, where he works as a DevOps Evangelist responsible for developing and sharing continuous delivery and DevOps best practices. He also serves as the CloudBees Product Marketing Manager for Jenkins. Take the 5th Annual DevOps and Jenkins Community Survey With DevOps World | Jenkins World San Francisco right around the corner, CloudBees is excited to sponsor the 2018 DevOps...

This is a guest post by Ullrich Hafner, professor for Software Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Munich and Jenkins contributor. He will be presenting Static Analysis Plugins - White Mountain Release for Pipelines at DevOps World | Jenkins World 2018. Jenkins' Warnings plugin collects compiler warnings or issues reported by static analysis tools and visualizes the results. The plugin (and the associated static analysis plugin...

Oleg Nenashev and I will be speaking at DevOps World | Jenkins World in San Francisco this year about Scaling Network Connections from the Jenkins Master. Over the years there have been many efforts to analyze, optimize, and fortify the “Remoting channel” that allows a master to orchestrate agent activity and receive build results. Techniques such as tuning the agent launcher can improve service, but qualitative change can only...

Kohsuke here. This is a message for my fellow Jenkins developers. Jenkins has been on an amazing run, but I believe we are trapped in a local optimum, and losing appeal to people who fall outside of our traditional sweet spot. We need to take on new efforts to solve this. One is “cloud native Jenkins” that creates a flavor of Jenkins that runs well on...

This is a guest blog by Niklas Tanskanen, consultant at Eficode. Kubernetes, the container orchestration platform is rapidly becoming popular. There are more and more workloads that you can run on top of Kubernetes. It’s becoming an enabling layer of your Hyper-convergenced infrastructure. If you set up Kubernetes as a Cloud provider in Jenkins, you’ll get a very powerful couple for running your workloads. To do that, you...

The Jenkins Configuration as Code plugin is reaching a stage when it is almost ready to be used in a production environment. As a matter of fact, I know some living-on-the-edge users are already doing that. The first release candidates are out and the official 1.0 is just around the corner. I’d like to use this chance to invite you to meet us and contribute to the...

This blog post is part 1 of a Configuration-as-Code series Jenkins is highly flexible and is today the de facto standard for implementing CI/CD, with an active community to maintain plugins for almost any combination of tools and use-cases. But flexibility has a cost: in addition to Jenkins core, many plugins require some system-level configuration to be set so they can do their job. In some circumstances,...