Two months ago I published an introductory article on the journey of becoming a Jenkins contributor. In that first article, the jenkins.io site was reviewed, learning about the multiple ways in which we can participate and contribute. Then, a first—​basic—​contribution I made to the site repository was described. Now, in this new article we will be exploring more advanced contributions, committing code to the actual Jenkins core. Getting started...

As a software engineer, for many years I have used open source software (frameworks, libraries, tools…​) in the different companies I have worked at. However, I had never been able to engage in an open-source project as a contributor, until now. Since I made my first—​ridiculously simple—​commit into Jenkins, six months ago (in September, 2018), I have been attempting to contribute more to the Jenkins project. However, contributing...

My job is to work on a Jenkins pipeline specific to SAP S/4HANA extensions running on SAP Cloud Platform. See the original blog post here. Jenkins is a powerful tool for automation, and we heavily rely on the codified pipeline syntax introduced in Jenkins 2. With regards to operations, we minimized the need for care with the cx-server life-cycle management greatly. Still, you need to run that Jenkins...

This is a guest post by Kesha Williams. Integrating Jenkins with Alexa to launch your pipelines and obtain results about your deployments through voice is easier than you think. Learn how Alexa Champion, Kesha Williams', latest side project teaches Alexa to deploy code to the cloud. Alexa (named after the ancient library of Alexandria) is Amazon’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered intelligent voice assistant that runs in the cloud. Software engineers...

On November 3rd, 2018 the Jenkins User Conference China (JUCC) met Jenkins users in Shenzhen which is the most burgeoning city in China. It was the first time to hold JUCC in Shenzhen. We held JUCC along with DevOps International Summit, which is the biggest DevOps event in China. More than 200 attendees gathered at JUCC Shenzhen to share and discuss Jenkins, DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Pipeline, and...

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...

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...

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 guest post was originally published on Wolox’s Medium account here. A few years ago our CTO wrote about building a Continuous Integration server for Ruby On Rails using Jenkins and docker. The solution has been our CI pipeline for the past years until we recently decided to make an upgrade. Why? Jenkins version was way out of date and it was getting difficult to upgrade Wolox has grown significantly over the...

Overview Recently some UI improvements around the Manage Jenkins page have been introduced. The visual changes are very subtle but behind them, there are interesting benefits. Some of the goals that we have tried to achieve: Applying a semantic HTML Removing the <table> tag usage for implementing layouts and content structures. Read this article if you want to know reasons and/or arguments. Small re-styling focused on spacing, margins, composition,...