Jenkins | Seems Like You Really Need SCM Polling

I tested notifyCommit messages sent to the git plugin in Jenkins – what happens when you commit several different branches in the same repo and rely on the git plugin to catch and schedule. The results were – odd. Some branches committed never made it. The limit for certainty seems to be the first commit,…

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notifyCommit messages to Same Repo

I started off from scratch with our CicdDiscover Jenkins plugin. I created and kicked off a job in Jenkins by committing to branch “test-cicddiscover-branch”. This as expected created the job. It then started building – not the test-cicddiscover-branch change, but an earlier change to origin/rc. I went ahead and committed another two changes, to branch…

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Jenkins plus (hacked) git-plugin – CICD

Jenkins has survived Hudson and is a go-to UI for what used to be called Release Engineering. It can become a key element in Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery. I’ve been setting it up as a packer-ansible integration tool to build code then package it as AMI’s (Amazon Machine Images) to drop into AWS (Amazon Web…

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Updated (DevOps) Resume…

What the hell is DevOps anyway? Many companies are hiring DevOps Engineers and it is a nebulous title – a hard skill set to nail down and most companies implementing it don’t really know what they are trying to do. DevOps is the pipeline between developers and deployment to production traffic. The holy grail is…

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