This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. The videos of the sessions from Jenkins World 2016 are up! I’ve updated the wrap-up posts with links to each of the sessions mentioned: Jenkins Pipeline Scaling Jenkins Ask the Experts & Demos You can also find video from all the sessions here. Enjoy!...

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...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. This year’s Jenkins World conference was a huge milestone for the Jenkins project - the first global event for the Jenkins community. It brought users and contributors together to exchange ideas on the current state of the project, celebrate accomplishments of the past year, and look ahead at all the exiting enhancements coming down the pipe(line). Contributor Summit To kick...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. As I mentioned in my previous post, Jenkins World brought together Jenkins users from organizations of all sizes. It also brought together Jenkins users of all skill levels; from beginners to experts (including to JAM organizers, board members, and long time contributors). A number of those experts also volunteered to staff the Open Source Hub’s "Ask the Experts" desk...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. One of the great features of Jenkins is how far it can scale, not only from a software perspective, but also from an organizational one. From a single Jenkins controller with one or two agents to a multiple controller with thousands of agents, from a team of only a few people to a whole company with multiple...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. As someone who has managed Jenkins for years and manually managed jobs, I think pipeline is fantastic. I spent much of the conference manning the Ask the Experts desk of the "Open Source Hub" and was glad to find I was not alone in that sentiment. The questions were not "Why should I use Pipeline?", but "How do...

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. That’s a Wrap! Any way you look at it, last week’s Jenkins World Conference 2016 was a huge success. In 2011, a few hundred users gathered in San Francisco for the first "Jenkins User Conference". Over successive years, this grew into several yearly regional Jenkins user conferences. This year, over 1,300 people came from around the world to...

On September 6th we had a Jenkins Online Meetup. This meetup was the second event in the series of Plugin Development meet ups. At this meetup we were talking about Jenkins Web UI development. Talks 1) Classic Jenkins UI framework - Daniel Beck In the first part of his talk, Daniel presented how Stapler, the web framework used in Jenkins, works, and how you can add to the set of...