This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Introduction With all the new developments in Jenkins Pipeline (and Declarative Pipeline on the horizon), it’s easy to forget what we did to create "pipelines" before Pipeline. There are number of plugins, some that have been around since the very beginning, that enable users to create "pipelines" in Jenkins. For example, basic job chaining worked well in many cases, and the Parameterized Trigger...

This week, we released the second beta of the new Declarative Pipeline syntax, available in the Update Center now as version 0.8.1 of Pipeline: Model Definition. You can read more about Declarative Pipeline in the blog post introducing the first beta from December, but we wanted to update you all on the syntax changes in the second beta. These syntax changes are the last compatibility-breaking changes to the syntax before the...

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say: 2016 was the best year yet for the Jenkins project. Since the first commit in 2006, the project has reached a number of significant milestones in its ten years but we have never experienced the breadth of major milestones in such a short amount of time. From Jenkins 2 and Blue Ocean to the Google Summer of Code and Jenkins World, I wanted to take...

This is a guest post by Carl Caum, who works at Puppet and created the Puppet Enterprise Pipeline plugin. During PuppetConf 2016, myself and Brian Dawson from CloudBees announced the Puppet Enterprise plugin for Jenkins Pipeline. Let’s take a look at how the plugin makes it trivial to use Puppet to perform some or all of the deployment tasks in continuous delivery pipelines. Jenkins Pipeline introduced an amazing world where the definition...

Last week we released version 0.7.1 of the Pipeline-Model-Defintion plugin and wanted to crown it as the official Beta version of the Declarative Pipeline syntax. Although it has been available in the update center since August, we continue to solidify the syntax. We feel this release is getting very close to the final version and should not change much before 1.0. However, it is still a Beta so further tweaks are...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. The JUnit plugin is the go-to test result reporter for many Jenkins projects, but the it is not the only one available. The xUnit plugin is a viable alternative that supports JUnit and many other test result file formats. Introduction No matter the project, you need to gather and report test results. JUnit is one of the most widely supported formats...

This is a guest post by Patrick Wolf, Director of Product Management at CloudBees. Recently the Pipeline team began making several changes to improve the stage step and increase control of concurrent builds in Pipeline. Until now the stage step has been the catch-all for functionality related to the flow of builds through the Pipeline: grouping build steps into visualized stages, limiting concurrent builds, and discarding...

At Jenkins World on Wednesday 14th of September, the Jenkins project was happy to introduce the beta release of Blue Ocean. Blue Ocean is the new user experience for Jenkins, built from the ground up to take advantage of Jenkins Pipeline. It is an entire rethink of the the way that modern developers will use Jenkins. Blue Ocean is available today via the Jenkins Update Center for Jenkins...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Testing web applications across multiple browsers on different platforms can be challenging even for smaller applications. With Jenkins and the Sauce OnDemand Plugin, you can wrangle that complexity by defining your Pipeline as Code. Pipeline ♥ UI Testing, Too I recently started looking for a way to do browser UI testing for an open-source JavaScript project to which I...

This blog post is the last one from the series of Google Summer of Code 2016, External Workspace Manager Plugin project. The previous posts are: Introductory blog post Alpha release announcement Beta release announcement In this post I would like to announce the 1.0.0 release of the External Workspace Manager Plugin version to the main update center. Here’s a highlight of the available features: Workspace share and reuse across multiple jobs, running on...