Auto-commit Jenkins configuration changes with Git

In my previous post, I described a technique for putting your Jenkins server configuration under version control. It’s a great way to ensure that your changes are always tracked and that you can recover if/when things get out of whack. However, if it requires you to regularly log onto the Jenkins box and manually run […]

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Version control your Jenkins server configuration with Git

I’ve worked on a variety of continuous integration and continuous delivery projects. We frequently use Jenkins as our platform for driving all build, provisioning, and deployment activities. As part of this, we have a lot of fairly complicated jobs in Jenkins that we are constantly modifying. As a version control pundit, one of my goals […]

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DevOps Test Automation in Practice

  The Engineer Your DevOps webinar series emphasizes application of software engineering principles to build DevOps solutions that are are reliable, scalable and sustainable.  On June 17, 2015, special guest Max Saperstone joined Jeffery Payne and Richard Mills on the topic “Integrating Automated Testing Into DevOps.” DevOps is not a tool or a process but […]

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Continuous Security in a DevOps Environment

\\This webinar was part of the Engineer Your DevOps Webinar Series, led by Coveros CEO Jeffery Payne and DevOps Practice Lead Rich Mills. The special guest was Glenn Buckholz, a Technical Lead on DevOps work at the Department of Homeland Security for Coveros. Glenn has worked with a wide range of federal and commercial customers […]

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Zero to Continuous at the speed of Jenkins

I recently gave two versions of a talk at Jenkins User Conference 2015 World Tour in Washington, D.C. Here are the slides for anyone who wants to review them: JUC Zero to Jenkins. That talk comes in two forms which you will notice from two cover pages. Zero to Federated at the Speed of Jenkins – […]

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Introduction to the Workflow plugin Part 1

The Workflow plugin is an open source plugin (or paid plugin available with Enterprise Jenkins by Cloudbees) that solves the challenge of complex build and delivery pipelines in Jenkins, and does so by using a Groovy DSL. Packaged with the core Workflow plugin, are other supporting plugins that increase the usefulness of the Workflow plugin. […]

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Why DevOps Engineering Is Important

The following is an edited excerpt from our webinar that took place March 10, 2015. The entire recording may be viewed here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/recording/737060184353086210.  This is the first in a series of webinars on DevOps Engineering and discussed why DevOps Engineering is important.  The webinar was given by Mr. Jeffery Payne and Mr. Richard Mills of […]

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DevOpsDC: Developing a Continuous Delivery Tool Chain from the Bottom Up

Last week I was able to talk about some of my DevOps experiences at the March 2015 DevOpsDC Meetup. I told the story about how we took a project that was just starting Agile and was deploying a risky release to production every 6 months or so, and over 4+ years brought it to deploying […]

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Engineering Your DevOps Solution: Building a Pipeline that Scales

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRESS CONTACT: David Burke dave.burke@coveros.com   [February 28, 2015, Fairfax, Virginia] DevOps practitioners, technical leads of development groups, operations managers, project managers and senior leadership trying to derive maximum return on their investment are signing up for a free opportunity to hear from the experts.  On March 10th at 12:00pm EST Jeffery […]

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Sign Up For Our Webinar : “Engineering Your DevOps Solution: Building a Pipeline that Scales”

Sign up for a free opportunity to hear from DevOps experts at Coveros. March 10th at 12:00pm EDT Jeffery Payne and Richard Mills will lead an interactive session called Engineering Your DevOps Solution: Building a Pipeline that Scales. Learning objectives include how to build a “meta-pipeline,” how to up your automated testing game, how to […]

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