Jenkins Newsletter - Continuous Information: Volume 8

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Spring 2015 - Volume 8   2015 Jenkins User Conference World Tour is Just Around the Corner! The speakers are ready and the butler has pressed his tux. In just a few weeks, the 2015 Jenkins User Conference (JUC) World Tour begins! The dates are as follows: U.S. East (Washington, D.C.) June 18-19 Europe (London) June 23-24 Israel (Tel Aviv) July 16 U.S. West (Santa Clara) September 2-3 The agendas for JUC U.S. East and JUC Europe have been finalized! A few speakers have blogged about their presentations, giving you an advance peek under the hood: Denis Chernilevskiy: Multi-Node Environment as a Jenkins Slave (Compound-Slave) at JUC Europe. Read his blog post here.  David Dang: Integrating Mobile Automation with Jenkins: A Case Study Using Perfecto Mobile with Jenkins at JUC U.S. East. Read his blog post here.  Check out the entire JUC Speaker Blog Series on the Jenkins-ci.org blog.  If you haven’t bought your ticket to the Jenkins User Conference US East, Europe, Israel or US West do it NOW. Better yet, register with a friend and get the community’s 2-for-1 deal (two tickets for the price of one)!     Jenkins Gatherings Workflow Summit / London Recap     The Workflow Summit in London happened on March 10th in the heart of London. We capped the attendance to keep the meeting small and interactive, and as developers of Workflow, we have learned a lot in terms of what’s more important vs. what’s less important. For example, documentation and evangelism still come high on everyone’s priority list. In the afternoon, a number of users presented their own successes in building CD pipelines around Jenkins and went through what that looks like. We took a lot of notes, and those are starting to get reflected in what we’ve done since then. Some of the speakers in that event will be back in JUC London to elaborate more, so stay tuned! Meetups Test Automation for DevOps: Wednesday, June 24, 2015, 6:30 PM EDT, San Francisco, CA. Learn about scaling test automation with JMeter and Jenkins. Are you interested in attending a Jenkins event like these? Keep an eye out for a Meetup near you. Or contact one of the Jenkins Meetup organizers to start your own!   FEATURE More about Jenkins Workflow     Workflow is a new feature in Jenkins. If you haven’t yet explored it, you must. It’s your ticket to readily automating all of your software delivery pipelines – no matter how complex. In the transformation to continuous delivery and DevOps, Workflow is a big jumpstart. Here are some ways to learn more: Jenkins Workflow Plugin Tutorial: If you are a new user of Workflow, visit this GitHub page to get started with Jenkins Workflow, complete with Docker demo. Blog: Continuous Delivery using Jenkins Workflow: There are many ways to implement continuous delivery with Jenkins, and many have shortcomings. This blog post  provides a brief overview of why Jenkins Workflow is a good option for continuous delivery with Jenkins. Even More Workflow Resources: On this page, are a number of additional resources to learn more about Workflow and the value it can provide for you. Read blogs, watch a webinar or a how-to video, download a white paper or read a third-party product review.     FROM THE COMMUNITY Jenkins and...      Jenkins and Docker: Ramchandra Koty and Balasubramaniyan Kannan share their journey to continuous delivery at Equinix in this post Continuous Application Delivery with Containers at Equinix.  Jenkins and Gerrit: Patrik Kågström describes an example on how the team at Tieto uses Gerrit/Git and Jenkins to test a change before it gets merged into the branch. Read the blog: How to Ensure Code Quality in Continuous Integration.  Jenkins and GitHub: When Jenkins is combined with other platforms/tools like GitHub, continuous delivery becomes more attainable. Read the full post here: Conquer Continuous Delivery with GitHub and Jenkins.  Jenkins and OWASP ZAP: In this article, Automating Security Tests Using OWASP ZAP and Jenkins, Burak shows us how he used a bit of Python scripting to continuously run vulnerability scan.   FEATURE Jenkins for Beginners   Upcoming JUC Sessions  Community input has been that more beginner-level, “how to” sessions at JUC are wanted. This year, Lorelei McCollum, Software Engineer at IBM, will be presenting a talk called “Jenkins 101” at JUC U.S. East. In her session, Lorelei will walk through how to get off to a good start. Meanwhile, Andrew Bayer is going to do a repeat performance of his standing-room only session at JUC last year on Seven Habits of Highly Effective Jenkins Users.  Lorelei and Andrew will have you feeling like a Jenkins Master in no time! Jenkins Articles: In series of Sitepoint articles, Peter Nijssen wrote four articles about Jenkins: Installing and Securing Jenkins: A great introduction to Jenkins. Preparing and Building a PHP Project in Jenkins: Learn how to prepare your first project in Jenkins. Analyzing a PHP Project with Jenkins: Peter talks about several tools you can use to analyze your Jenkins projects. More Useful Jenkins Plugins for PHP Projects: One of the great things about Jenkins is that “there’s a plugin for that.” Almost any technology can be used with Jenkins, via its extensive set of available plugins.    from CloudBees, our newsletter sponsor Continuous Delivery, Powered by Jenkins Attend the following JUC talks at any JUC to learn more about the work CloudBees is engaged to help make Jenkins even more useful for software delivery:  “Jenkins Workflow: What’s Up?” by Jesse Glick: As one of the lead developers of the Workflow functionality, Jesse understands the ins and outs of Workflow very well. He will discuss Workflow-related initiatives and seek input from the community. “Evolving the Jenkins UI” by Gus Reiber/Tom Fennelly: Gus and Tom will discuss ongoing efforts to evolve the Jenkins UI. Come attend and get involved in this important effort!   JENKINS TRAINING Jenkins Training   Jenkins two-day training classes happen all the time, all over the world. Here are five sessions to get you on the road to becoming a Jenkins “Master”! June 11-12: Redwood City, CA, USA Presented by Open Source Architect June 24-25: London, SE1 3UD UK Presented by Forest Technologies July 14-15: London, SE1 3UD UK. Presented by Forest Technologies September 22-23: London, SE1 3UD UK Presented by Forest Technologies September 23-24: Breda, Netherlands Presented by codecentric       Table of Contents:   2015 Jenkins User Conference World Tour is Just Around the Corner! Workflow Summit London Recap More about Jenkins Workflow Jenkins and… Jenkins for Beginners Jenkins Training     Upcoming Jenkins Webinars     Using Jenkins & XL Test to Ensure Quality in Continuous Delivery Thursday, June 11, 2015 at 2pm EDT         JAVA NEWS Are You Still Running Java 6?   By the time you are reading this, Jenkins has upped the minimum runtime requirement from Java 6 to Java 7. We’ll get to Java 8 in the not so distant future, too. Time to update!      FOR FUN Big Jenkins   We had made a 3D model of Mr. Jenkins available last year, and this year we’ve made a bigger version --- six inches of fully colored sandstone makes a perfect desk companion. ...and Bigger Jenkins   Jenkins users take selfies next to our favorite Butler!     JENKINS GATHERINGS Register for JUC     Still need your ticket to JUC? Bring your BFF and get the community’s 2-for-1 pricing deal! U.S. East: June 18-19 Europe: June 22-23 Israel: July 16 U.S. West: September 2-3     RESOURCES Continuous Delivery Resources     InfoQ eMag This downloadable guide overviews an example set of tools that would constitute a typical toolchain used for continuous delivery processes: Jenkins, Docker, Puppet and Chef, amongst others.  CD with Jenkins Webinar In this webinar “You Can’t “Do” DevOps. You Can “Do” Continuous Delivery with Jenkins learn how organizations can implement continuous delivery with Jenkins as a step toward DevOps transformation.     READING LIST The Phoenix Project   Get your free copy when you attend CD Summit Gene Kim, author of The Phoenix Project will be a keynote speaker at the U.S.-based JUC and CD Summit conferences this year. CD Summit and JUC are running concurrently in Europe and the U.S. Attend CD Summit and receive a free e-book version of The Phoenix Project, the story of an IT organization in trouble – until they discover the value of continuous delivery and DevOps practices.       YOU ASKED Can You Help?   As a community, we pride ourselves on the ability to share expertise among Jenkins users. Check out the latest questions on the StackOverflow forum in relation to Jenkins CI and see if you can help.     CONTRIBUTE What Do You Think About This Newsletter?   How can we improve the Jenkins newsletter? 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