We're currently setting up a program to support community members' travel to Jenkins community events. Our goal is to enable more members of the community to meet each other and exchange ideas in person. We're still hashing out the details, but it'll be available to every Jenkins community member. Apply, telling us what Jenkins-related event you'd like to attend and how awesome you are, and...

Developing Enterprise-Ready Plugins My greatest surprise at JUC 2014 in Boston was how many enterprise Jenkins CI users had developed plugins for their own use. I had not pictured enterprise release managers as plugin developers. Here at Black Duck Software, we developed Jenkins plugins for four years running. Fabrice Solami, a sales engineer, wanted to do more than automate our code scanning tool via a...

The Jenkins Newsletter is out a bit early this quarter. If you are not signed up to receive it via email, check out Volume 9 here. You will be connected to all sorts of Jenkins resources from Jenkins training sessions, to some Jenkins User Conference news, to how Jenkins works with Kubernetes and Docker. I hope that you enjoy this issue! Please let me know what...

Nicolas De Loof will host an office hour next Wednesday 11 AM PDT on integrating Kubernetes with Jenkins. Kubernetes is an open-source project by Google that provides a platform for managing Docker containers as a cluster. During this session, Nicolas will introduce Kubernetes, explain how it can benefit Jenkins and demonstrate the Kubernetes Plugin. Then he will discuss the design of the Kubernetes plugin and plans...

Join Me at JUC West to Discuss Building an Enterprise Continuous Delivery Machine with Jenkins After a great event on the East Coast in June, now over to the West Coast for another exciting Jenkins User Conference! I'll be there for JUC West on September 2-3 with the XebiaLabs team, and am looking forward to talking to the Jenkins users, partners, developers and community members...

Mobile is Joining the Party At This Year’s Jenkins User Conference Consider this as a shout out to mobile app developers: You are invited! For the first time, there’s a mobile track at this year’s Jenkins User Conference to discuss the best ways to extend CI/CD to mobile application testing. As agile practices take hold, enterprises are expecting more collaboration between dev and test teams. Dev...

A week ago we reported that Uday is looking at organizing a regular Jenkins meet-up in Silicon Valley. This has made a progress since then, and this evening we'll get together to figure out logistics for the first meet-up: Time August 5th, Wednesday 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Location Starbucks, 750 Castro St, Mountain View, CA 94041 The agenda is: Determine the date for the first meet up Speakers for the...

There's only a month left until JUC U.S. West on September 2-3! If you're still on the fence, check out the recaps of JUC Europe talks recently posted to the CloudBees blog. These should give you an idea about the kinds of talks you can expect at a Jenkins User Conference: How to Optimize Automated Testing with Everyone's Favorite Butler Configuration as...

It seems a bit unreal, but the last JUC agenda for 2015 is now online. Jenkins User Conference U.S. West is the last JUC of the year running from September 2-3 in Santa Clara, CA. So, if you haven't attended JUC yet this year, this is your chance! Register with a friend to take advantage of the community's 2-for-1 deal and get two tickets for...

Slides and video from JUC Europe are now available online! If you made it to London to attend this year's JUC Europe, I hope you enjoyed the conference, met plenty of community members and learned more about Jenkins. Now that the slides and video are up, you can revisit your favorite talks or "attend" the ones that you missed...all at your leisure. If you were unable...