Brent Laster on Jenkins 2 and Git

The O’Reilly Programming Podcast: Creating and implementing continuous delivery pipelines.

In this episode of the O’Reilly Programming Podcast, I talk about Jenkins 2 and Git with Brent Laster, who presents a number of live online training courses on these topics (including Building a deployment pipeline with Jenkins 2, and Next level Git). Laster will also present the workshop Power Git at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, July 16-19, 2018, in Portland, Oregon, and he is the author of the forthcoming O’Reilly book Jenkins 2: Up and Running.

Discussion points:

The benefits of the pipeline-as-code model, introduced in Jenkins 2. Laster calls it “more of a DevOps take on things. It adds a lot more flexibility around creating your pipelines, and allows you to treat them like source code.”

The differences between continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment, the topic of a 2017 report by Laster

The Groovy-based Jenkins DSL, and Blue Ocean, Jenkins’ visual interface

Jenkins’ GitHub organization project type, which “really makes it easy to scale up the automatic creation of jobs,” says Laster. “You can point Jenkins at a GitHub organization, and it can go out and look at each project, and then within each project, scan for Jenkinsfile.”

Other links:

The online training course Migrating Jenkins Environments to Jenkins 2, presented by Laster

Laster’s book Professional Git