There is a new Security Advisory that covers issues in several Jenkins plugins, including the Kubernetes Plugin, the Confluence Publisher Plugin, the SSH Agent Plugin and several more. Descriptions of the issues and how they have been addressed in each plugin are included. Check out the advisory to see if any issues affect plugins you …
We have a couple of very experienced Jenkins folks visiting from Cloudbees in the US next week, so we thought it was a good excuse to get the meetups in Sydney and Melbourne together. We’re not planning a formal presentation, but both Kurt and Aaron have been involved with helping a lot of large customers …
My Jenkins job was set to trigger a build automatically from a simple GitHub webhook, but the job didn’t build when code changes were pushed to GitHub. Was the problem in Jenkins, GitHub, or something else? I investigated using Jenkins log recorders.
This is the final post, part 3 of a series: Part 1: Overview and Deploy Azure Resources Part 2: Deploy Jenkins Operations Center, Master and Shared Agent Part 3: The Jenkinsfile, tweaks and tips In this post I describe the Jenkinsfile that defines the build pipeline, a little troubleshooting and tweaking, and wrap up the series.
This post is part 2 of a series: Part 1: Overview and Deploy Azure Resources Part 2: Deploy Jenkins Operations Center, Master and Shared Agent Part 3: The Jenkinsfile, tweaks and tips In this post I deploy the Jenkins distributed builds model: a Jenkins client master will delegate build jobs to one or more Jenkins agents. In addition, …
I’ve been trying out Enterprise Jenkins on Azure. The inspiration was a webinar, Achieving Continuous Delivery on Microsoft Azure, about the “four quadrants of DevOps maturity”, and how to address the needs of different teams in the delivery pipeline using tools from Azure and Enterprise Jenkins. The webinar includes a demo of a cloud-based Jenkins Pipeline job, and the source code is freely …
Code Partners hosted the Sydney Jenkins Meetup again this month, and this time it was my turn to present. I’ve been exploring the new Declarative Pipeline support recently for one of our projects so I wanted to give everyone an overview, how they differ from Scripted Pipelines, and share some of the shortcuts I’d found …
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We’re once again hosting the Jenkins Meetup, at our offices in Sydney and also streaming online, on June 21st at 6:30pm. I’ll be presenting an introduction to Declarative Pipelines. Here’s the blurb from the Meetup page: Declarative Pipelines are one of the newer features introduced to Jenkins, which allow you to write Pipelines-as-Code without having to …
Long, long ago when I was a student, I knew how to recognise a UNIX system. Sorry: overused in-joke. I’ve been brushing up on Linux (Ubuntu 14.04 on Azure) while doing some ops stuff involving a machine which, on startup, automatically runs a background process as a specific user. A few minutes of research revealed several ways …
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What you need to know Manually build a Jenkins Pipeline job at least once, if you’ve set up the job to build automatically when a change is pushed to an SCM like Git. I scratched my head for some time about this, checking logs and double-checking configurations before I figured out why. The short answer: RTFM. The long answer …
