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 suite) has been part of the Jenkins plugin eco-system for more than ten years now. In order to optimize user experience and support Pipeline, a major rewrite of the whole set of plugins was necessary. This new version (code name White Mountain)...

Oleg Nenashev and I will be speaking at DevOps World | Jenkins World in San Francisco this year about Scaling Network Connections from the Jenkins Controller. Over the years there have been many efforts to analyze, optimize, and fortify the “Remoting channel” that allows a controller 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,...

The Jenkins Contributor summit is where the current and future contributors of the Jenkins project get together. This summit will be on Tuesday, October 23rd 2018 in Nice, France just before Jenkins World. The summit brings together community members to learn, meet and help shape the future of Jenkins. In the Jenkins commmunity we value all types and sizes of contributions and love to welcome new participants. It...

More and more today, continuous delivery (CD) pipelines are making use of containers. In many implementations, the primary workflow/orchestration tool for CD pipelines is Jenkins. And the primary container orchestration tool is Docker. Together these two applications provide a powerful, yet simple to understand and use, model for leveraging containers in your CD pipeline. When creating a pipeline script in Jenkins, there are multiple ways to incorporate Docker...