Monthly Archives: April 2019

initPipeline_JenkinsPlugin, Open-Sourced

I wrote a jenkins plugin while I was idle between Oath and my current gig. This plugin is a simplification of Oath’s (AOL’s) CICD Discover plugin. Re-written from scratch. Instead of crafting java code in the plugin, I walked it back to its origins, where it sends execution to an external executable. The impetus to…

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Why Devops Falls Short (for Most Companies)

When companies move their development over to scrum they feel they’ve found a holy grail. For a while, anyway. Then the realities of scrum and agile development creep in. The separate Operations division finds the response time they can manage and the training of developers on using repositories, CICD servers, packer, ansible, tooling, plus trying…

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