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 Code - The Job...

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...

This is a guest post by Manuel Recena Soto (aka recena). Users of the plug-in know that it has undergone very important changes in the last two years. Unfortunately, some of these changes resulted in regressions for some users that weren’t properly addressed in subsequent releases. Many users were therefore forced to keep using an older release of the plugin to keep their instances running. To fix...

Uday made a blog post yesterday that he is looking at organizing a regular Jenkins meet-up in the Silicon Valley Bay Area dubbed "Bay Area Jenkins Area Meetup (JAM)." As a first step, he wants to have a kick-off meeting, to get more insights and opinions about what the topics could be and what people want to hear. I’m really looking forward to it as...

Slides and video from JUC U.S. East are now available online! If you attended the conference, THANK YOU, and I’m sure you had fun, learned a lot and met many people from the Jenkins community. Now you can revisit your favorite talks or "attend" the ones that you missed. If you were unable to attend JUC U.S. East, you now have the slides and video so...

Kubernetes is an open-source project by Google that provides a platform for managing Docker containers as a cluster. In their own words: Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions. Using the concepts of "labels" and "pods", it groups the...

After several months of inactivity, office hours, the bi-weekly meeting of Jenkins users and developers to learn more about Jenkins, are back. I’ll host the first session next Wednesday at 11 am PDT. This session will be about Stapler, focusing on what Jenkins plugin authors need to know about it, e.g. request routing, form submission handling, or how Jelly/Groovy views work. While this is going to...