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Managing Complex Dependencies with Distributed Architecture at eBay
The eBay engineering team recently outlined how they came up with a scalable release system. The release solution leverages distributed architecture to release more than 3,000 dependent libraries in about two hours. The team is using Jenkins to perform the release in combination with Groovy scripts.
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Automating Software Quality Certification at eBay
The eBay Application Platform Team has started using Kubernetes Operators, Helm Charts and Jenkins to ensure software quality at the organization. In order to perform safe changes within the associated containers and environments, the team has created a self-service “certification” solution.
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Java News Roundup - Week of April 12th, 2021
This week’s Java news roundup features news from OpenJDK promoting JEP 411 to Candidate status, Kotlin 1.5.0-RC, Piranha Cloud 21.4.0, Weld CDI point releases, CloudBees releasing Jenkins X 3.0, numerous Spring project-related point releases and release candidates, and a new Atlassian JIRA command-line utility introduced by David Blevins.
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Jenkins Creator Launches ML Startup in Continuous Risk-Based Testing
Jenkins creator, Kohsuke Kawaguchi, starts Launchable, a startup using machine learning to identify risk-based tests. Testing thought leader Wayne Ariola also writes about the need for a continuous testing approach, where targeted risk-based tests help provide confidence for continuous delivery.
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CloudBees Releases Official Jenkins X Distribution
CloudBees has released its official Jenkins X distribution, a CI/CD tool for cloud-native Kubernetes applications based on the GitOps approach. CloudBees will take the essential features from the open-source code with a monthly release cadence. This initial release supports GKE, pipelines, vault integration, and preview environments; additional features like DevPods will come in a future version.
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Athena: Automated Build Health Monitoring at Dropbox Engineering
Dropbox’s engineering team runs ~35,000 builds and millions of automated tests, many of which can fail either due to bad commits or due to environmental conditions. The team created a build monitoring system to minimize the manual intervention necessary to detect and quarantine flaky tests, and notify code authors.
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Five Initiatives to Modernize Jenkins and Kill the "Jenkinsteins"
Kohsuke Kawaguchi, creator of Jenkins and CTO at CloudBees, spoke last month at Jenkins World in Nice about five on-going initiatives to modernize the popular CI/CD tool. The initiatives revolve around Jenkins Evergreen, Jenkins Pipeline (Blue Ocean), Jenkins Configuration-as-Code, Jenkins X, and Cloud-Native Jenkins.
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Continuous Integration at Intel for the Mesa Graphics Library
Mesa CI is a continuous integration system at Intel for running builds and compliance test suites for the Mesa graphics library. It runs across more than 200 systems and runs tens of millions of tests per day.
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Jenkins to Focus Efforts on Stability, Ease of Use and Cloud Native Compatibility
The Jenkins project team has decided to split its efforts between focusing on stability issues and on better support for running on platforms like Kubernetes. The former, which will potentially have backward-incompatible changes, will impact the release model and provide a more pre-configured installation, whereas the latter will work on similar lines as the existing Jenkins X project.
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DevSecOps Grows Up and Finds Itself a Community
On June 28th, the first DevSecOps Days event came to London following a similar event in San Francisco in April. It kicked off with a welcome address from event founders, Mark Miller and John Willis, who explained that the intention is to replicate the DevOpsDays model and empower communities worldwide to stand up their own events.
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CloudBees Release "Jenkins X", a CI/CD Solution for Modern Cloud Applications Deployed to Kubernetes
James Strachan and the CloudBees team have released the open source “Jenkins X” platform as a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) solution for modern cloud applications that will be deployed onto Kubernetes. Strachan is sponsoring JEP 400, a formal proposal to act as a “stake on the ground”. The proposal requests that Jenkins X become a sub-project in the Jenkins Foundation.
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DevOps Workbench Launched by ZeroStack
Private cloud provider, ZeroStack, has announced a self-service capability from which developers can create their own workbenches. Forty developer tools from a mix of open source and commercial providers are available to users of the DevOps Workbench through Zerostack’s Intelligent Cloud Platform.
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Book Review Docker on Windows by Elton Stoneman
Docker on Windows, written by Elton Stoneman, is a great book for Windows developers who want to learn how to effectively use Docker. It covers many aspects from Docker: images and containers, but also newer features such as multi-stage builds. The book is a perfect fit for engineers, architects, and administrators who are already building and delivering server applications running on Windows.
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Jenkins Gets a Facelift with Release of Blue Ocean 1.0
Jenkins, the popular open source automation server that is used by development teams worldwide for continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, has recently announced the general availability of Blue Ocean 1.0.
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Microsoft and Jenkins Partner to Run Project Infrastructure on Azure
Jenkins recently announced a partnership with Microsoft to run its project infrastructure on Azure. Moving to Azure will enable elastic workloads as well as additional resources for Jenkins services.