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JSConf in 10 minuten

Rick en Michel van ilionx Interactive Marketing waren het hele vorige weekend in Berlijn voor CSSconf en JSConf EU 2019. Eerder las je al een kort verslag van CSSconf. Hieronder volgen…

Michel Vollebregt
12 juni, 2019

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Jenkins: Working with Credentials in your pipeline

Security is mandatory, and should always have been, so eventually, you’ll run into the requirement of having to pass credentials to a system in your pipelines. It could be you…

Maarten Tijhof
3 juni, 2019

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CSSconf in 5 minuten

Rick en Michel van ilionx Interactive Marketing zijn het afgelopen weekend in Berlijn geweest voor CSSconf en JSConf EU 2019. Afgelopen vrijdag, 31 mei, was CSSConf. Voor wie er niet…

Michel Vollebregt
3 juni, 2019

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Jenkins: Testing conditional logic for stages in your pipeline

Some steps in your development or release process can only be executed when the conditions are right. An example of this is that releases to Production can only be done…

Maarten Tijhof
27 mei, 2019

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Jenkins: Testing with post conditions in your pipeline

The behaviour of your pipeline can be much more complex than the simple success/failure flow shown in the previous blog post. The Jenkins declarative pipeline syntax has a lot more…

Maarten Tijhof
20 mei, 2019

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Improving upon the Containerization Process at Terrax Micro-Brewery Inc

It´s high time to continue on our blog series about containerization. We’re gonna improve upon our previous setup and throw even more of our brews into containers. In fact the…

Roger Goossens
20 mei, 2019

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Jenkins: Validating the behaviour of your pipeline

The recent posts on this blog about Jenkins have been preparing us for this: validation of the behaviour of your Jenkins Pipeline in a test, in order to be able to check what the impact is of any changes you make to this pipeline, before it lands on your live instance and possibly influences the teams that are working with it…

Maarten Tijhof
13 mei, 2019

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Jenkins: Testing a full declarative pipeline in your Shared Library

In the previous posts, I’ve shown how to set up your Jenkins Shared Library, create Custom Pipeline Steps in it, set up the test frameworks, run complete pipelines from your…

Maarten Tijhof
6 mei, 2019

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Jenkins: Preparing your Shared Library for tests

After explaining how to set up your Shared Library, how to build it and how to run complete pipelines from this Library, it is time to create tests for the…

Maarten Tijhof
29 april, 2019

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Enabling threaded Slack messages while using the Jenkins Slack plugin

Most of the time, when reading documentation, everything seems clear how to implement a particular piece of software. In some cases it can be very time consuming which I found…

Edwin de Kler
29 april, 2019

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GraalVM – Native Images – REST API

This port is part of the GraalVM series I’m writing. In the previous post, which can be found HERE, I talked about what GraalVM is and gave a basic example…

Thomas Janssen
24 april, 2019

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Jenkins: Running a declarative pipeline from your Shared Library

As shown in the previous blog post, Jenkins enables you to write your own pipeline code, which can be shared among all pipelines in your Jenkins instance. This post is…

Maarten Tijhof
22 april, 2019

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MongoDB – Getting the latest item

Lately I have had the pleasure of working with a mongoDB. It´s a nice database with a relatively easy to learn syntax. You can see why it is one of…

Dirk Janssen
22 april, 2019

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Graal – The new JIT on the block

In order for your java code to actually run, you first have to compile your code. By running the javac command you can easily do this. The sourcecode is transformed…

Dirk Janssen
19 april, 2019

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Jenkins: Creating a custom pipeline step in your library

Pipelines in Jenkins, especially the declarative kind, can be very powerful and expressive at the same time. As a caveat, it is also very easy to get overly verbose by…

Maarten Tijhof
15 april, 2019

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One VM to Rule them All

Why GraalVM is currently one of the hottest Java topics In 2013, Oracle labs came with a scientific article named “One VM to Rule Them All”. In this article they…

Dirk Janssen
12 april, 2019

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Jenkins: Using Gradle to build your Shared Library

Being able to test your Jenkins pipeline Shared Library code, and therefore minimising the risk of pushing new pipelines or functionality to your Production instance, is vital for organisations using…

Maarten Tijhof
8 april, 2019

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Jenkins: Setting up a Shared Library for your pipelines

When you’re using a system with multiple teams/users, there is always a trade off between having a shared codebase and the ability to override certain parts for a specific need….

Maarten Tijhof
1 april, 2019

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Redirect users when updating your 3scale Developer Portal

Did you ever wonder how to tell your 3scale Developer Portal visitors that it needs to be taken offline for updates, backups or maintenance? In a few simple steps and…

Edwin de Kler
31 maart, 2019

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3scale policy development – part 2 generate a policy scaffold

In first part of our multi-part blog series about 3scale policy development we looked into the setup of a development environment. Now we have a functioning development environment we can…

Pim Gaemers
22 maart, 2019