Rebel Labs Report: “Jenkins CI: The Origins of Butlers, Build Masters and Bowties”
Jenkins. The build master in a bow tie that we’ve all grown to rely on. In this new report from Rebel Labs, we’re all over Jenkins like brown on rice, or like JRebel on your classloaders.
In Jenkins CI: The Origins of Butlers, Build Masters and Bowties, we look at all the angles in Jenkins, covering some history, our favorite features & plugins and even show you how to build Jenkins pipelines the ZeroTurnaround way–plus, we have top it all off with an exclusive interview with our friend Kohsuke Kawaguchi, the originator of Jenkins. Here’s what we got in store for you:
- Part I – Intro, history, timeline, the break between Jenkins & Hudson
- Part II – ZeroTurnaround’s favorite Jenkins features and top 15 favorite plugins, common pitfalls when getting started
- Part III – How Developers, QA/Testers, Infrastructure Engineers and Project Managers utilize Jenkins
- Part IV – How ZeroTurnaround uses Jenkins to build and release JRebel and LiveRebel (building pipelines in 8 steps)
- Part V – *Exclusive interview with Kohsuke Kawaguchi, creator of Jenkins
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