Jenkins Makes SD Times 2013 Top 100 For the fourth year in a row, SD Times recognized Jenkins as “Best in Show” in Software Development! They recognize what we all know – rapid deployment of new software and features is critical to a business’s success. Over the last few years, Jenkins has collected myriad other awards as well. With more than 65,000 active installations and more than 800 plugins, Jenkins is clearly the People’s Choice. Check out the SD Times award and other accolades. |
feature Health Check-up for Jenkins Best Practices from Kohsuke Just like human beings, Jenkins benefits from periodic health check-ups. It helps you establish baselines if you develop performance problems later, and sometimes it even lets you discover a problem and nip it in the bud before it becomes a serious one. In this post, I’m going to talk about a couple of very accessible tools that let you do the check-up by yourself… Read Blog The Latest Jenkins Gatherings Jenkins User Conference – Palo Alto, California – October 23 The agenda has been released and we have a great line-up! And as a special perk for friends of CloudBees, use the code BEE-JUC at registration to get $26 off (expires October 4). A big shout-out to our JUC Palo Alto sponsors: - Platinum: CloudBees
- Gold: ZeroTurnaround , JFrog , appvance , XebiaLabs , LMIT Software , Black Diamond Software , BrightRoll
- Silver: New Relic , AppDynamics , Liferay , SOASTA , Confreaks
More Jenkins Events: - Jenkins Scalability Summit , Oct 24 in Los Altos, CA – unfortunately the event is full, but you can send us your scalability challenges and ideas and we’ll put them on the Topics list . The Summit results will be published for all to enjoy.
- Jenkins Sao Paulo, Brazil Meetup , Dec 7 – registration is open.
updates What’s New in Jenkins? Kohsuke shares the latest and greatest Jenkins developments… - Remote classloader improvements. This change will help newly-connected slaves ramp up quickly, especially over slow or large-latency network. Details here .
- Thread count reduction in SSH. This feature improves the memory footprint on the master that runs a lot of slaves. Details here .
- Git plugin refactoring. This change brings in JGit, which simplifies deployment and gives us fine-grained control over per-project authentications. Details here and here .
You can see the full Jenkins Changelog here . feature Automating .NET builds –
It’s Not All About TFS A blog on JenkinsHeaven by Andrew Gray There is another way. You have an option. Just because you are working in a .NET shop does not mean you are locked into using TFS. In fact in many ways you would be better to break the shackles of TFS. It’s easy to use Jenkins for Continuous Integration and Git for configuration management with .NET. Read the blog to learn how ad from CloudBees, our newsletter sponsor | Do you frequently run out of build resources? Get tired of administering Jenkins machines? Handy tip: Do it all in the cloud with the CloudBees DEV@cloud service! - No more infrastructure maintenance
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feature Writing a Jenkins Plugin Kohsuke Interviews Mike Rowan, VP R&D at SendGrid Labs Interested in writing a plugin but never got around doing it? Hear the story from someone who did it for the first time! Read the blog to learn just how easy it is We hope to see you at the Jenkins User Conference next month! As always, if you have other suggestions or thoughts on how to make Continuous Information more useful to you, please send the newsletter team a note. Want this newsletter emailed to you? Subscribe! | |
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Happy Users Stats saymore than 65,000 installations use Jenkins , but who are they and what are they doing? Find out on the Jenkins Wiki . Then add your own listing to the page. virtually there Couldn’t make it to Israel for JUC this summer? Attend the sessions virtually case study TeleStax uses Jenkins in the cloud to support the open source Mobicents project, with delightful results: Learn how Dzone Refcard The Essential Jenkins on PaaS cheat sheet, this Dzone Refcard contains a laundry list of great Jenkins resources and some tips on PaaS to boot. It’s a handy Jenkins reference to share with your team. Get the Refcard on-demand webinar Configure a complete build/test/ deploy continuous integration environment using Jenkins on the CloudBees Platform as a Service - and then add BlazeMeter's 100% JMeter-compatible performance testing platform, all in just a few clicks. Watch the webinar cool tools Want visual feedback when your build breaks? Check out this clever solution , this one , and this one too . Get your Jenkins news every day with this Paper.li Jenkins daily publication . Are you doing something exciting with Jenkins? Send us a short overview and we’ll share it with the community! Just drop an email to continuous-information @cloudbees.com Check out previous issues of Continuous Information . You can also sign up to receive the newsletter here . |