This is a guest post by Brent Laster, Senior Manager, Research and Development at SAS. Jenkins Pipeline has fundamentally changed how users can orchestrate their pipelines and workflows. Essentially, anything that you can do in a script or program can now be done in a Jenkinsfile or in a pipeline script created within the application. But just because you can do nearly anything directly in those mechanisms doesn’t mean...

Jenkins World is approaching fast, and the event staff are all busy preparing. I’ve decided to do something different this year as part of my keynote: I want to invite a few Jenkins users like you come up on stage with me. There have been amazing developments in Jenkins over the past year. For my keynote, I want highlight how the new Jenkins (Pipeline as code with the Jenkinsfile, no...

This is a guest post by Alyssa Tong, who runs the Jenkins Area Meetup program and is also responsible for Marketing & Community Programs at CloudBees, Inc. We have received a good number of nominations for the Jenkins World 2017 Community Awards. These nominations are indicative of the excellent work Jenkins members are doing for the betterment of Jenkins. The deadline for nomination is this Friday, June 16. This...

This is a guest post by Alyssa Tong, who runs the Jenkins Area Meetup program and is also responsible for Marketing & Community Programs at CloudBees, Inc. This year at Jenkins World 2017, the Jenkins community will celebrate the Most Valuable Contributor, a Jenkins Security MVP, and the Most Valuable Advocate. This will be the first year we are commemorating community members who have shown excellence through commitment, creative thinking, and...

This is a guest post by Alyssa Tong, who runs the Jenkins Area Meetup program and is also responsible for Marketing & Community Programs at CloudBees, Inc. I am excited to announce the agenda for Jenkins World 2017. This year’s event promises to have something for everyone - whether you are a novice, intermediate, or advanced user…​you are covered. Jenkins World 2017 consists of 6 tracks, 60+ Jenkins and DevOps...

In early February numerous free and open source developers from around the world traveled to Brussels, Belgium, for arguably the largest event of its kind: FOSDEM. Among the thousands of hackers in attendance were a dozen or so Jenkins contributors. We have attended the event in the past, but this year we had a blizzard of activity spanning four days around the FOSDEM weekend. Figure 1. City Hall, photo by Kohsuke...

The largest Jenkins event, Jenkins World is coming to San Francisco, California on August 28 - 31, 2017, at the Marriott Marquis. This conference will feature two days of hands-on training, workshops, and certification exams followed by two more days with five tracks of technical sessions from Jenkins and DevOps experts from around the world. Inspire your peers and colleagues by sharing your expertise and experience as one of...

As we near the end of the year, the number of November JAMs show that the Jenkins community isn’t slowing down for holiday season. We had a number of excellent events hosted around the world this November with plenty of great stories and presentations shared by the various members of the world-wide Jenkins community. Melbourne, Australia JAM Melbourne JAM leaders, Raisa and Bhuva hosted Blue Ocean for the inaugural meeting. Attendees learned the values...

October has proven to be a busy month within the Jenkins Area Meetup groups. Below is a recap of topics discussed at various JAMS in the month of October. Dallas Forth Worth, Texas (DFW) JAM James Dumay took time out of his vacation to present Blue Ocean, a project that rethinks the user experience of Jenkins, modeling and presenting the process of software delivery by surfacing information that is important...

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!...