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• Monitor Jenkins jobs with the Datadog plugin

  This is a guest post by Emily Chang, Technical Author at Datadog. A modified version of this article was originally posted on the Datadog blog. If you’re using Jenkins to continuously integrate changes into your projects, it’s helpful to be able to quickly identify build failures and assess their impact on other components of your stack. Datadog’s plugin helps users monitor and alert...

  Emily Chang February 8, 2017
• SCM API 2.0 Release Take 2

  In January we announced the release of SCM API 2.0. After the original release was published we identified four new high-impact issues. We decided to remove the new versions of the plugins from the update center until those issues could be resolved. The issues have now been resolved and the plugins are now available from the update center. Summary for busy Jenkins Administrators Upgrading should make...

  Stephen Connolly February 6, 2017
• Converting Conditional Build Steps to Jenkins Pipeline

  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...

  

  Liam Newman January 19, 2017
• SCM API turns 2.0 and what that means for you

  The regressions discovered after release have now been resolved and this post has been updated with the correct plugin version numbers. See this post for more details. We are announcing the SCM API 2.0.x and Branch API 2.0.x release lines. Downstream of this there are also some great improvements to a number of popular plugins including: GitHub Branch Source BitBucket branch source Git Mercurial Pipeline Multibranch GitHub Organization Folders There are some gotcha’s that Jenkins...

  Stephen Connolly January 17, 2017
• Declarative Pipeline Syntax Beta 2 release

  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...

  Andrew Bayer January 12, 2017
• Learning plugin development by improving the LIFX notifier plugin

  This is a cross post by Veaceslav Gaidarji, open source developer and contributor to the Jenkins and Bitrise projects. Some time ago I encountered a LIFX smart bulbs. These are the bulbs with a chip inside - 50% bulb, 50% chip. There are mobile applications for easy configuration and remote control of the bulb. Nothing special here, it simply works and is very convenient to have such...

  Veaceslav Gaidarji January 10, 2017
• xUnit and Pipeline

  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...

  

  Liam Newman October 31, 2016
• Browser-testing with Sauce OnDemand and Pipeline

  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...

  

  Liam Newman August 29, 2016
• GSoC: External Workspace Manager for Pipeline is released

  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...

  Alexandru Somai August 22, 2016