Tag: jenkins

Configuring a Multi-Branch Pipeline in Jenkins – Adventures in Learning

In my previous post, I had demonstrated how to configure a Jenkins Server using Docker. The next step is to create a Jenkins job to build some software. Now, we could just do a simple freestyle job, or a basic Maven build – but that will require configuration of Jenkins every time we want to make a new project, and that makes managing the Jenkins Server via Docker more annoying. So, instead, I’m going to use the Cloudbees Bitbucket Branch Source Plugin and create a Bitbucket Team/Project job that will create the rest of my Jenkins jobs automagically for me. A similar plugin exists for GitHub, though I haven’t looked into it.

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Setting up a Jenkins Server with Docker – Adventures in Learning

With the upcoming end-of-life for Bamboo Cloud, I’m in the market for a new build server setup. For this1 experiment, I’m returning to an old favourite – Jenkins – paired with a potential new favourite – Docker. In this post, I describe how I’ve set up a Jenkins server in a Docker container, using the Multibranch Pipeline plugin to automatically configure a simple build2.

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Git, Feature Branches, and Jenkins – or how I learned to stop worrying about broken builds

I mentioned in my last post how we have started using Feature Branches with Git and Jenkins. In that, I rather casually mentioned that

“The build server uses the Git plugin for Jenkins to monitor all the branches on the local repository. Whenever a developer pushes to the repository, Jenkins will see the change and try to merge it into the stable branch. If the build passes, the merge is committed. If it doesn’t pass, the FeatureBranch doesn’t get merged – and it will stay unmerged until another change is made against it.”

This feature means that broken builds have almost no impact on team productivity. In fact – it can even be more productive to allow a broken build than to try to prevent it all the time.

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Making Parallel Branches meet regularly with Git and Jenkins

If you’ve been following my tweets recently, then you’ll know that we’ve recently converted the majority of our projects at work from Subversion to Git for our source control. We didn’t just do this because we wanted to play with a new shiny toy, but because we hope to achieve a new way of working. That’s what I want to describe here.

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