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...

Jenkins infrastructure is continuously improving. The latest service to get some attention and major improvement is the Jenkins javadoc. There were a number of issues affecting that service: Irregular updates - Developers wouldn’t find the latest java documentation because of inadequate update frequence. Broken HTTPS support - when users would go to the Javadoc site they would get an unsafe site warning and then an incorrect redirection. Obsolete content - Javadoc...

Jenkins X uses Capabilities identified by the "Accelerate: The Science Behind Devops" Jenkins X is a reimagined CI/CD implementation for the Cloud which is heavily influence by the State of DevOps reports and more recently the book "Accelerate: The Science Behind Devops" by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble and Gene Kim Years of gathering data from real world teams and organisations which has been analyzed by inspiring thought leaders and data scientists...

Anchore provides docker image analysis for user defined acceptance policies to allow automated image validation and acceptance. As developers we would like to know if a change we are proposing introduces a Common Vulnerability and Exposure (CVE). As operators we would like to know what running applications are affected if a new CVE is discovered. Now in Jenkins X pipelines, if we find an Anchore engine service running we...

Jenkins X is an opinionated platform for providing CI / CD on top of Kubernetes. We’ve chosen a set of core applications that we install and wire together so things work out-of-the-box, providing a turn key experience. This blog aims to build on previous introductions to Jenkins X and provide a deeper insight to what you get when you install Jenkins X. So what happens? After downloading the jx...

Its been 24 days since we announced Jenkins X, a CI/CD solution for modern cloud applications on Kubernetes. I’m truly blown away by the response and feedback from the community - thank you! We’ve also had lots of folks report they’ve successfully used Jenkins X on a number of clouds including GKE, AWS and AKS along with on-premises clusters which is great to hear! Here’s a brief overview of the...

I recently wrote about how all the cloud platforms are all in Kubernetes and so are developers. It is an exciting time, but the problem for many is that this is a huge blank sheet of paper for how to build and deploy applications. A white space, a void, a limitless canvas of possibilities. Insert metaphors here. The problem, as you may guess, is that few people really like or are...

We are excited to share and invite the community to join us on a project we’ve been thinking about over the last few months called Jenkins X which extends the Jenkins ecosystem to solve the problem of automating CI/CD in the cloud. Background The last few years have seen massive changes in the software industry: use of immutable container images for distributing software which are smaller, easier...

This is a guest post by Pui Chee Chen, Product Manager at Microsoft working on Azure DevOps open source integrations. Recently, we improved the Azure Credential plugin by adding a custom binding for Azure Credentials which allows you to use an Azure service principal (the analog to a service or system account) via the Credentials Binding plugin. This means it’s now trivial to run Azure CLI commands from a Jenkins Pipeline. We...

This is a guest post by Guillaume Laforge, Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Last week, I had the pleasure to speak at the Jenkins Community Day conference, in Paris, organized by my friends from JFrog, provider of awesome tools for software management and distribution. I covered how to scale Jenkins with Kubernetes on Google Container Engine. For the impatient, here are the slides of the presentation I’ve given: But let’s step back a...