The Story Behind Software Delivery Management
Software Delivery Management is finally here and we’re all part of making history to launch CloudBees into this emerging category. I know each keynote during a conference is important, but sitting in the audience during DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 in San Francisco was truly a defining and pivotal moment for our company. Shawn Ahmed, […]
Announcing the CloudBees Jenkins X Distribution
Today we are announcing the first release of the CloudBees Jenkins X Distribution. It’s a battle-tested, preconfigured ready-to-go package for Jenkins X that you can count on today. We’ll vouch for it with support and documentation, and evolve it at a predictable and well-tested cadence. That’s a big deal for us and for the Jenkins X community, and […]
DevOps World-Jenkins World 2019 San Francisco: Agenda is Live
We are under two months away from the largest Jenkins gathering of the year. From Jenkins users, to maintainers, contributors, mentors and those new to Jenkins this event will have something for everyone. This year’s DevOps World – Jenkins World 2019 San Francisco has moved to a larger venue to facilitate the growth. From August 12 – 15, […]
eBook – From Release Anxiety to Release Orchestration
Release managers carry the weight of a successful digital transformation on their shoulders. However, while their colleagues in Development and Operations get to use and experiment with the latest and greatest tools, Release Managers often must rely on emails, spreadsheets and disconnected project management tools to keep abreast of things. Weekend-long release sessions, early morning […]
Guide – Certified CloudBees Jenkins Platform Engineer (CCJE): Certification Exam Study Guide
CloudBees®, Inc., offers two certifications for Jenkins engineers: • The Certified Jenkins Engineer (CJE) exam consists of 60 multiple-choice questions testing knowledge of open-source Jenkins. • The Certified CloudBees Jenkins Platform Engineer (CCJE) exam consists of 90 questions: 60 questions testing knowledge of open-source Jenkins and 30 questions testing knowledge of the CloudBees Jenkins Platform. […]
Guide – Certified Jenkins Engineer (CJE): Certification Exam Study Guide
CloudBees®, Inc., offers two certifications for Jenkins engineers • The Certified Jenkins Engineer (CJE) exam consists of 60 multiple-choice questions testing knowledge of open-source Jenkins. • The Certified CloudBees Jenkins Platform Engineer (CCJE) exam consists of 90 questions: 60 questions testing knowledge of open-source Jenkins and 30 questions testing knowledge of the CloudBees Jenkins Platform. […]
Whitepaper – Easily Build Continuous Delivery Pipelines with Jenkins and Pipeline Plugin
Organizations have been orchestrating pipelines with Jenkins for years. As Jenkins and continuous delivery experience deepens, organizations want to move beyond simple pipelines and chart complex flows that map to their specific software delivery processes. For Jenkins users, creating and managing complex pipelines just became easier with Jenkins and the Jenkins Pipeline plugin. Learn what it […]
Whitepaper – DevOps Performance: The Importance of Measuring Throughput and Stability
Measuring DevOps performance in any business can be a difficult task. Product and engineering teams often lack insight into their software development value streams to determine how work is flowing, where the blockages appear and how to improve their continuous delivery process. These hurdles can be addressed by knowing what key metrics will guarantee success […]
eBook – Building Cloud Native Apps Painlessly – The Prescriptive Guide to Kubernetes and Jenkins X
This new book explains how our industry has reached the cloud native era, which impacts how software applications are developed, tested, deployed and managed. Inside, you’ll read about how the future of modern application development can benefit from the powerful combination of Jenkins X and Kubernetes, providing developers a seamless way to automate their continuous […]
eBook – CI/CD for Cloud Native Applications on Kubernetes
Teams often spend days manually setting up Jenkins, pipelines and implementing continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) effectively. Jenkins X comes with all the automation you need to be able to focus on your application code and tests. In this whitepaper, explore the business value Jenkins X brings to organizations who undertake the journey of continuous everything. Automatic software […]
DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019: Made for Developers
As a software developer, you might have attended some conferences in the past where the tough topics get breezed over, and there’s not enough technical information to answer your really detailed questions. Well, DevOps World | JenkinsWorld is not that kind of event! Our sessions get into the tough technical questions and get very specific, digging […]
8 CI/CD Best Practices for Your DevOps Journey
According to a recent IDC study, the worldwide DevOps software market reached $2.9 billion in 2017 and is forecasted to reach $6.6 billion in 2022. With over 50% of organizations embracing DevOps last year, continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) have become an integral part of the software development process. Your business is likely embarking on […]
Getting Webhooks Behind that Firewall of Yours
In this post I’ll show you how to receive webhooks in real time from GitHub.com, even if your CloudBees Core stuff is behind a firewall. You can generalize this to other services too – such as BitBucket or DockerHub, or anything really that emits webhooks, but the instructions will be for GitHub projects hosted on github.com. The […]
Top 10 Best Practices for Jenkins Pipeline Plugin
The Jenkins Pipeline plugin is a game changer for Jenkins users. Based on a Domain Specific Language (DSL) in Groovy, the Pipeline plugin makes pipelines scriptable and it is an incredibly powerful way to develop complex, multi-step DevOps pipelines. This document captures some definite Do’s and Don’ts of writing Jenkins Pipelines – with code examples and explanations. 1. […]
Value Stream Management: Software Delivery Visibility and Insight
Overview The digital economy has pushed organizations to produce better products faster, leading them to adopt DevOps and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) for efficient software delivery. This industry shift impacts all groups within an organization to evaluate and adopt new business practices to meet this growing need and stay competitive in the market. Indeed, IT leaders […]
Opinionated Kubernetes and Jenkins X
I recently wrote about how all the cloud platforms are all in Kubernetes and so are developers. It is an exciting time, but the problem for many is that this is a huge blank sheet of paper for how to build and deploy applications. A white space, a void, a limitless canvas of possibilities. Insert metaphors here. The problem […]
All You Need to Know About Jenkins X
Jenkins X is an open source project that offers automated CI/CD for cloud native applications on Kubernetes. Now over a year old and under the auspices of the Continuous Delivery Foundation, the emerging interest and growing implementations of Jenkins X has developers learning more about this technology and what it can do for them. Using Jenkins X […]
Jenkins X Calls to Simplified Telephony Solutions
Ask your industry colleagues what Jenkins X might be and you may get different answers. Is it a plane, train or automobile? Is it Jenkins++? Is it the beloved Jenkins Butler on steroids? If you’re a developer, you know Jenkins and now Jenkins X is perhaps one of the most important emerging technologies for building cloud […]
Under the Hood of Jenkins X – A CI/CD Solution for Cloud Applications on Kubernetes
Motivation First, we articulated the business value that Jenkins X in automating Continuous Everything for Kubernetes. We encourage you to read it first. If you recall, Jenkins X as an automated CI/CD solution for cloud applications on Kubernetes. Jenkins X automates the installation, configuration, and upgrades of tools, so that users can learn at their own pace. […]
Introducing Software Delivery Management
If you were amongst the attendees of our first few CloudBees Days events of 2019, in Madrid April 4, Zurich April 10, or yesterday in Dallas April 16, you witnessed us introducing the world to a new category of software we are inventing here at CloudBees: Software Delivery Management, or SDM (yeah, I know the world needs […]
Why SaaS CI/CD Solutions Work for Open Source Projects
Today, open source communities use a wide range of tools for building and delivering their software. These tools tend to also be open source, but more and more open source communities are starting to see the value of managed, SaaS tools to help support their communities and their goals. Still, finding the right fit can […]
What is DevOps?
From conferences to articles and books, the term DevOps has taken the IT world by storm. The buzz is understandable, as many IT groups are looking for a way out of the morass of delayed projects, questionable quality and missed deliveries in which they often find themselves. It’s clear DevOps has potential to address the challenges IT […]
Webinar – Apache Maven & Continuous Delivery/Deployment – The DevOptics Team’s Approach
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