No one likes their software build to take forever. If you are not using binary dependency between your multiple projects as projects grow in size the more time to build and test is going to be needed. Luckily Gradle has a feature to help with this dilemma. By building multi-project projects using parallel task execution the […]
Quality feedback is essential to any software delivery project and the best way to improve feedback is to reduce the developer feedback cycle and make any (and every) result transparent to the project, its members and its stakeholders. You should continue to mesure and broadcast results through communication mechanisms commonly referred to as “information radiators.” […]
Gradle is very powerful build automation tool. It supports numerous languages, has a wide array of plugins to choose from, or write your own, easily manage dependencies, and integrates with the build systems such as Jenkins. Gradle makes it very easy to execute common build tasks and even execute commands on the operating system shell. […]
In my previous post, I described a technique for putting your Jenkins server configuration under version control. It’s a great way to ensure that your changes are always tracked and that you can recover if/when things get out of whack. However, if it requires you to regularly log onto the Jenkins box and manually run […]
I’ve worked on a variety of continuous integration and continuous delivery projects. We frequently use Jenkins as our platform for driving all build, provisioning, and deployment activities. As part of this, we have a lot of fairly complicated jobs in Jenkins that we are constantly modifying. As a version control pundit, one of my goals […]
Building software in the cloud makes scalability an easy and achievable goal for your organization. As the demand on your Jenkins executor capacity increases, you need to be able to scale your Jenkins footprint to keep up with the demand. This is where the Amazon EC2 Plugin can make a huge impact to […]
I recently gave two versions of a talk at Jenkins User Conference 2015 World Tour in Washington, D.C. Here are the slides for anyone who wants to review them: JUC Zero to Jenkins. That talk comes in two forms which you will notice from two cover pages. Zero to Federated at the Speed of Jenkins – […]
The Workflow plugin is an open source plugin (or paid plugin available with Enterprise Jenkins by Cloudbees) that solves the challenge of complex build and delivery pipelines in Jenkins, and does so by using a Groovy DSL. Packaged with the core Workflow plugin, are other supporting plugins that increase the usefulness of the Workflow plugin. […]
The following is an edited excerpt from our webinar that took place March 10, 2015. The entire recording may be viewed here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/737060184353086210. This is the first in a series of webinars on DevOps Engineering and discussed why DevOps Engineering is important. The webinar was given by Mr. Jeffery Payne and Mr. Richard Mills of […]
Sign up for a free opportunity to hear from DevOps experts at Coveros. March 10th at 12:00pm EDT Jeffery Payne and Richard Mills will lead an interactive session called Engineering Your DevOps Solution: Building a Pipeline that Scales. Learning objectives include how to build a “meta-pipeline,” how to up your automated testing game, how to […]
