This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Blue Ocean is a new user experience for Jenkins, and version 1.0 is now live! Blue Ocean makes Jenkins, and continuous delivery, approachable to all team members. In my previous post, I used the Blue Ocean Activity View to track the state of branches and Pull Requests in one project. In this video, I’ll use the Blue Ocean Dashboard get...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Blue Ocean is a new user experience for Jenkins, and version 1.0 is now live! Blue Ocean makes Jenkins, and continuous delivery, approachable to all team members. In my previous post, I showed how easy it is to create and edit Declarative Pipelines using the Blue Ocean Visual Pipeline Editor. In this video, I’ll use the Blue Ocean Activity...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Blue Ocean is a new user experience for Jenkins, and version 1.0 is now live! Blue Ocean makes Jenkins, and continuous delivery, approachable to all team members. In my previous post, I explained how to install Blue Ocean on your local Jenkins instance and switch to using Blue Ocean. As promised, here’s a screencast that picks up where that...

Gus Reiber will host this week’s office hour on Wednesday, 11 AM PDT. He’ll talk about some of the UI/UX improvements in Jenkins that he’s working on, and will answer your questions about it. He’s already given several talks about this, so you can check these out to learn more before the office hour: JUC US East JUC Europe JUC US West There are also some mailing list threads...

Nicolas De Loof will host an office hour next Wednesday 11 AM PDT on integrating Kubernetes with Jenkins. Kubernetes is an open-source project by Google that provides a platform for managing Docker containers as a cluster. During this session, Nicolas will introduce Kubernetes, explain how it can benefit Jenkins and demonstrate the Kubernetes Plugin. Then he will discuss the design of the Kubernetes plugin and plans...

https://youtu.be/1Qn4jEwAeGc Above is the screencast associated with this blog post If you have ever used Jenkins you are familiar with what I am about to described, wading your way through job configuration page, looking for the settings that are important, and, depending on your plugin use, wondering where all these other setting came from and what they do. + Depending on how long you have used Jenkins,...

+ In preparation for https://jenkins-ci.org/content/jenkins-celebration-day-february-26[Jenkins 100K celebration], I'm going to record a one-time podcast with Dean Yu, Andrew Bayer, and R. Tyler Croy. + + + My current plan is to go over the history of the project, how big the community was back then, how we grow, where we are now, and maybe a bit about future. + + + But if you have any other...

+ https://plus.google.com/events/c4eagqodepqojlrv7glhc1ctg48[In tomorrow's Jenkins office hours], Jesse Glick will talk about two topics in the workflow plugin that he has been asked about: + + Security model: script security, permissions Plugin compatibility: SimpleBuildStep and friends, custom steps, etc. + + + The session should be interesting to anyone using workflow or thinking about using workflow. Jesse is one of the top contributors in the community, so it'd be definitely worth...

Jesse and I will walk through the source code of the workflow plugin, highlights key abstractions and extension points, and discuss how they are put together. If you are interested in developing or retrofitting plugins to work with workflows, I think you’ll find this session interesting. The event will be on Google Hangout tomorrow. The time of the day is the same as usual office hours....

+ The other day I was explaining how to implement a new workflow primitive to https://github.com/vivek[Vivek Pandey], and I captured it as a recording. + + + + + The recording goes over how to implement the `+Step+` extension point, which is the workflow equivalent of `+BuildStep+` extension point. If you are interested in jumping on the workflow plugin hacking, this might be useful (and don't...