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Webinar: Introducing CloudBees Jenkins Platform – your foundation for DevOps and CD with Docker Containers

Continuous delivery (CD) of applications is rapidly becoming a differentiator in this application economy. CloudBees, the enterprise Jenkins company, recently announced the availability of the CloudBees Jenkins Platform to help organizations adopt CD. This new enterprise offering from CloudBees brings CD to the masses with the new Team Edition, while enabling enterprise CD deployments powered by Jenkins at scale with the Enterprise Edition. At the same time, the Jenkins open source community, in conjunction with CloudBees, released six new plugins to support the use of Docker containers within Jenkins-powered CD and CI processes. Docker is powerful new technology that allows teams focused on delivering software to standardize their development and production application environments for reduced risk and accelerated application delivery. Leveraging Docker containers in a CD process managed by Jenkins is the ultimate way to deliver better software faster.

Join Tracy from CloudBees as she talks about Cloudbees’ new enterprise offering and the changes happening in the Jenkins community to provide first class support for Docker in the creation of CD pipelines. In this webinar, Tracy will introduce features in the latest release of the CloudBees Jenkins Platform to
help manage Jenkins’ across the organization and walk through six common delivery patterns with Jenkins and Docker. Tracy will then tie it all together with a demo of an end-to-end delivery pipeline with Docker.

Continuous delivery with Jenkins and application containerization with Docker are rapidly becoming two of the foundations of the DevOps movement. Check out this webinar to learn how you can adopt these new tools and techniques in your own DevOps transformation.

Recorded: Wednesday, August 5th, 2015

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Alan Shimel, Editor-in-Chief devopsy.kinsta.cloud, An often-cited personality in the security and technology community and a sought-after speaker at industry and government events, Alan has helped build several successful technology companies by combining a strong business background with a deep knowledge of technology.

About the Panelists

Tracy Kennedy is an associate product manager for CloudBees and is based in Richmond, Virginia. Prior to her current role, Tracy has worked at CloudBees as a solutions architect and a developer success engineer. In her free time, she enjoys rock climbing, grand strategy games, and reading. Read more about Tracy in her Meet the Bees blog post and follow her on Twitter.

Udaypal Aarkoti is the Director of Solution Architecture at CloudBees. He believes in complete end to end automation and that continuous delivery is the future of application delivery. Prior to CloudBees he lead the middleware solution architecture team at Red Hat.

July 13, 2015
Jenkins User Conference is a win-win for CloudBees

The Jenkins User Conference and CD Summit US East, will be held in Alexandria, Virginia in a couple weeks. Gene Kim is one of the keynote presenters and the event includes an impressive list of sponsors, presenters, and attendees highlighting the momentum of DevOps. I spoke with CloudBees CEO Sacha Labourey—who will also be attending the event in Virginia—about the Jenkins User Conference, the growing Jenkins community, and CloudBees’ role in it all.

Labourey expressed satisfaction with the growth and strength of the open source community involved in developing and maintaining Jenkins. It is the success of the community that both demands and allows for the Jenkins User Conference to be organized at locations around the world throughout the year.

Continuous Delivery

Jenkins is a platform for continuous delivery or continuous integration. The concept may initially have been targeted at developers but Labourey believes that the focus on continuous delivery is now higher up in the corporate food-chain. It’s now IT operations people and even the CIO and other executive leaders who are addressing the question, “How can we improve the delivery of software within the organization?”

There is no single solution—no cookie cutter, one-size-fits-all way to do continuous delivery, though, according to Labourey. Every case is different.

That’s why an event like the Jenkins User Conference is so valuable. Those considering Jenkins or exploring continuous delivery can learn more. Those already using it can share their own lessons learned and best practices. The community can collaborate and compare notes. By meeting and sharing companies and individuals can understand how other organizations are accomplishing things and take away the tips and advice that make sense and try it out for themselves. The cooperative nature of the Jenkins community is the fuel that drives it.

Separation of church and state

I asked Labourey to explain the relationship between Jenkins and CloudBees. CloudBees business focuses on delivering Jenkins continuous integration / continuous delivery for customers, so CloudBees obviously has strong incentive to ensure the success of Jenkins. He told me that CloudBees is a significant supporter of and contributor to the Jenkins open source project. CloudBees does not own or control Jenkins, though, and believes strongly in maintaining what Labourey called the “separation of church and state.”

CloudBees has developers and engineers actively involved with Jenkins—contributing code and providing support. However, the Jenkins community organizes itself and manages the open source project without any involvement from CloudBees. The Jenkins community wants to remain independent and manage its own destiny according to Labourey.

As noted above, though, CloudBees’ business relies on Jenkins. The stronger Jenkins is, and the better its features and capabilities, the better it is for CloudBees. That is why CloudBees has taken on the role of helping to organize and fund the Jenkins User Conferences. It’s a win-win because whatever helps the Jenkins community also helps CloudBees.

Labourey promised that attendees of the Jenkins User Conference and CD Summit will not be disappointed. The sessions are filled with valuable content, and there will be discussion of recently added features and capabilities as well as the unveiling of some new ones. If you’re organization is using continuous delivery / continuous integration—or even considering it—you should check out the Jenkins User Conference.

June 8, 2015
Gene Kim shares his thoughts on upcoming Jenkins User Conference

DevOps is coming to Virginia June 18 and 19. The Jenkins User Conference is being held in Alexandria and one of the keynote speakers is none other than Gene Kim—one of the original leaders of the DevOps movement. I had a chance to speak with Kim about what he plans to present and about his thoughts on the current state and future direction of DevOps in general.

Kim told me he’s looking forward to speaking in front of the Jenkins User Conference audience. One of the core elements of his presentation will be a closer look at the principles and patterns of successful DevOps organizations and the lessons we’ve learned so far as a DevOps community. He told me he’s not interested in “unicorns”—the big name companies like Netflix or Facebook that were early adopters and DevOps innovators. He is more interested in the “horses”—ordinary companies effectively employing DevOps to do extraordinary things.

Over the last year or two I have written a number of articles around the theme of DevOps being undefinable. I’ve asserted that there’s no default DevOps solution and that if you asked 10 different organizations to define what DevOps means you’d get 15 different answers. Gene Kim does not agree.

Kim told me that he takes the completely opposite position—that there are unmistakable characteristics of DevOps. An organization can choose to call something DevOps, but according to Kim if it’s lacking in these core elements it will not succeed.

He said that there are certain core principles that comprise DevOps and enable organizations to develop and operate faster. The principles Kim listed were peer review, less management approval required, rigorous automated testing, the ability to create entire environments on demand, and one-click deployment. Many of the core elements are a reflection of the culture shift required to successfully implement DevOps.

Kim didn’t just pull this stuff out of thin air, either. He and some partners recently shared the results of a comprehensive study of 9,200 organizations scattered across 110 countries. The research revealed that the high-performers—those who have successfully embraced these core principles—do better than the non-high-performers by two orders of magnitude or better.

Put another way, those organizations that are employing DevOps effectively are poised to blow their rivals completely out of the water. DevOps isn’t just a different approach to infrastructure or development—it has a direct impact on the bottom line. One part of the study found that high-performers have 8,000 times faster lead times than their peers. How can an organization that isn’t using DevOps compete with a rival that can produce 8,000 times faster than they can?

That brings me to the other aspect of the Jenkins User Conference that Kim is excited about: the diversity of the organizations represented there. Both in terms of the companies represented by the presenters and the companies represented by the attendees, it’s apparent that DevOps has reached a critical mass of mainstream adoption. Organizations from Agilant and AirBus to IBM, Perfecto Mobile and Pivotal have respected professionals sharing knowledge about DevOps.

If you happen to be in the Alexandria area or plan to be in a couple weeks you should try to go to the Jenkins User Conference. If you’re company isn’t using DevOps you’re already behind the learning curve. If you don’t catch up soon a competitor will out-perform you by two orders of magnitude and you won’t have a company anymore.

June 4, 2015
Jenkins User Conference and CD Summit: Calling all London DevOps

I wanted to give a quick shout out to the large, vibrant and supportive London DevOps community. Later this month (June 23rd and 24th), there will be a joint conference at the Hilton Metropole, London. Combining the Jenkins User Conference and Cloudbees CD Summit, it is two days of CD/CI/DevOps learning.

Speakers include:

Kurt Bittner, Principal Analyst Forrester,

Martin Croker, Managing Director, DevOps, Accenture,

Sanjeev Sharma, CTO, DevOps Technical Sales & Adoption, IBM Distinguished Engineer, IBM,

Viktor Clerc, Product Manager, XebiaLabs

and more.

The Jenkins User Conference (JUC) features another great lineup of speakers as well. devopsy.kinsta.cloud as well as a host of others are sponsoring the event.

In speaking to my friends at Cloudbees they mentioned that there were tickets still available. I found that hard to believe as I know what the community is like here in London. So if you are going to be in town on the 23rd and 24th, don’t miss this event! I will be there hosting a great panel on the 23rd as well.

The Jenkins community is one of the most active that I have ever seen. I am looking forward to seeing many of you in London on the 23rd ad 24th.

There are still sponsorships for CD Summit as well. If interested you can contact Cloudbees for info.

Also this Thursday is DevOps Connect: Rugged DevOps @Infosecurity Europe all day. Registration is free, so come down for a great day of DevOps tracks!

June 2, 2015
Webinar: You Can’t “Do” DevOps. You Can “Do” Continuous Delivery.

“DevOps” is the latest rage. Leading edge companies like Netflix, Etsy, and Intuit (the “Unicorns”) have transformed their I.T. Development and Operations organizations into a new culture known as DevOps: Development and Operations working collaboratively together to accelerate the pace of software and application delivery. But they didn’t implement DevOps. A DevOps transformation to their culture was the outcome of their implementation of continuous delivery of software. Continuous delivery is a process that applies automation and orchestration technologies to the application lifecycle. In this webinar you will learn how your organization can implement continuous delivery as a step toward your own DevOps transformation. With continuous delivery, you can accelerate application delivery which will allow I.T. to better meet the needs of the organization. With continuous delivery, I.T. becomes a business enabler.

Event recorded Wednesday April 22^nd, 2015

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Your Host:

Alan Shimel, Editor-in-Chief of devopsy.kinsta.cloud. An often-cited personality in the security and technology community and a sought-after speaker at industry and government events. Alan has helped build several successful technology companies by combining a strong business background with a deep knowledge of technology.

Panelists:

As CloudBees’ Sr. Director of Product Marketing, Dan Juengst leads the product marketing efforts for the CloudBees Continuous Delivery Platform powered by Jenkins. Dan brings 20+ years of high tech experience to CloudBees with expertise in grid computing, high performance computing, and application performance. Dan has worked as both customer and vendor at both startups and enterprises. Dan’s resume includes Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, SGI, Wily Technology, Terracotta, and Lockheed Martin where he started his career computing hypersonic reacting airflows around Mach 30 flight vehicles.

April 7, 2015
CloudBees Raises $23.5 Million
Funding round to fuel the continuous delivery leader’s significant expansion in 2015

LOS ALTOS, CA. – January 27, 2015 – CloudBees, Inc., the Enterprise Jenkins Company and continuous delivery leader, today announced a $23.5 million financing round, led by longtime CloudBees investor Lightspeed Venture Partners. Existing investors Matrix Partners, Verizon Ventures and Blue Cloud Ventures also participated in the round.

The latest funding announcement follows earlier rounds of $4 million, $10.5 million and $10.8 million, bringing the total investment in CloudBees to just under $50 million since the company’s inception in 2010. Previous venture investment rounds were led by Matrix Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Verizon Ventures with participation from Blue Cloud Ventures, JBoss alumni Bob Bickel and Marc Fleury, and Ed Bugnion, co-founder of VMware.

CloudBees plans to use the funding to facilitate the ongoing and significant growth the company is experiencing from demand for its continuous delivery (CD) solutions based on Jenkins CI, the leading open source continuous integration (CI) platform. With Jenkins’ global dominance as the hub of continuous delivery for enterprises, CloudBees sees explosive demand in 2015 for its Jenkins-based solutions. The CloudBees solutions enable organizations to leverage Jenkins and CD practices at enterprise scale.

“This investment in CloudBees tops a year of continuous growth and acceleration, fueled by the adoption of continuous delivery as companies in all markets realize that software is eating the world,” said Sacha Labourey, founder and chief executive officer of CloudBees. “We will use the additional capital to serve the growing demand for Jenkins-based solutions worldwide, to continue to capture market share and to further cement our position as the continuous delivery leader.”

CloudBees plans to make investments in a variety of areas – including development, marketing, sales and professional services – to increase marketshare. The company also plans to introduce new products to serve an even broader range of customers – from smaller implementations to full-scale enterprise footprints – and to make new investments in strategic partnerships.

Growth in the enterprise uptake of Jenkins has been an important business driver for CloudBees and was a primary factor in its successful strategic shift in 2014 to focus solely on continuous delivery solutions powered by Jenkins. Global brands that subscribed to CloudBees’ enterprise offerings in 2014 include Amadeus, 3M, TIAA-CREF, Intuit, Alcatel-Lucent, Discover Financial Services, EMC, Fidelity, Lufthansa, Fannie Mae, Amdocs, The Federal Reserve, Hyatt Hotels, Disney, PG&E, Northrup Grumman, USDA, Robert Bosch, EMC, Verizon, ABN AMRO, Nordstrom, Cisco and T-Mobile.

“We’ve been with CloudBees since the early days and we continue to be impressed with the way this world-class team delivers on its market vision,” said John Vrionis, general partner with Lightspeed Venture Partners. “The business is scaling quickly and we believe there is a massive opportunity to build a franchise company, given all the momentum in continuous delivery.”

Additional Resources
- Read more about CloudBees strategic pivot to become the Enterprise Jenkins Company:
  https://www.cloudbees.com/press/cloudbees-becomes-enterprise-jenkins-company
- Learn more about the CloudBees offerings:
  www.cloudbees.com/products
About CloudBees
CloudBees (www.cloudbees.com), the Enterprise Jenkins Company, is the continuous delivery (CD) leader. CloudBees provides solutions that enable IT organizations to respond rapidly to the software delivery needs of the business. Building on the strength of Jenkins CI, the world’s most popular open source continuous delivery hub and ecosystem, the CloudBees Continuous Delivery Platform provides a wide range of CD solutions for use on-premise and in the cloud that meet the unique security, scalability and manageability needs of enterprises. The CloudBees Jenkins-based CD solutions support many of the world’s largest and most business-critical deployments.

Backed by Matrix Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Verizon Ventures, CloudBees was founded in 2010 by former JBoss CTO Sacha Labourey and an elite team of continuous integration, continuous delivery and DevOps professionals. Follow CloudBees on Twitter, Facebook,LinkedIn and Google+.
January 27, 2015
Breaking Builds II – The Butler did it
As editor-in-chief here at devopsy.kinsta.cloud and writing for several other publications I see more than my share of contests, promotions and other marketing campaigns (not to mention pitches from PR agencies), but I came across one this week that I really wanted to share with you. My friends at CloudBees, the Jenkins company are once again running their Breaking Builds promotion. In case you don’t know about it, it combines two very different characters. The Butler from Jenkins and Walter White from Breaking Bad. As Sacha Labourey, CEO of CloudBees says in his blog post on the contest morphing these two together is “probably one of the best examples of cognitive dissonance you can get.”

The marketing and engineering teams at CloudBees have come up with a series of banners with graphics of the Butler as Breaking Bad characters, especially Water White. They then have come up with captions for the images that are spoofs of lines from Breaking Bad and also have a Continuous Delivery angle to them. You can see what they have come up with here. Your mission if you accept it is to take the graphics and come up with a better caption than the CloudBees team. You then tweet the image with your caption and you’re entered.

There are prizes for several categories of captions. The categories are
- Most Original Caption for any of the 10 #BreakingBuilds images + your caption
- Most Humorous Caption for any of the 10 #BreakingBuilds images + your caption
- Most ReTweeted Twitter post* for any of the 10 #BreakingBuilds images + your caption *Dare we call this CI (Continuous Interaction)? 😉
- Most Favorited Twitter post for any of the 10 #BreakingBuilds images + your caption
- We may also create additional categories during the contest if we see an emerging theme!
The categories, prizes and full rules are also available here.

Personally my favorites of the images and captions done by CloudBees are these two:

So if you are a Jenkins and/or a Breaking Bad fan why not join in the fun. Give it a try. We will also feature some of the winning banners here on devopsy.kinsta.cloud
December 18, 2014
CI and CD Across the Enterprise with Jenkins November 19th

We recently held another webinar in our continuing series at devopsy.kinsta.cloud. We partnered with the good people at CloudBees on CI and CD across the enterprise with Jenkins. The webinar featured:

Cyrille Le Clerc is Director of Product Management at CloudBees with more than 15 years experience in Java. Prior to CloudBees, Cyrille was Chief Technology Officer at Xebia. As an early adopter of the “you build it you run it” model, he put it in place for a number of high volume web sites. He naturally embraced DevOps culture. He is also very active in the Java community, creator of the open source project “embedded jmxtrans” and a speaker at various conferences.

It proved to be the most popular webinar we have held yet with almost 1500 people registered! Many were not able to log in live for the event. We are making a recording available for those who could not attend and anyone else who would like to listen:

Hope you enjoy it and stay tuned for more webinars.

November 26, 2014
CI and CD Across the Enterprise with Jenkins – CloudBees
We are happy to announce the next devopsy.kinsta.cloud Webinar, in partnership with CloudBees :

CI and CD Across the Enterprise with Jenkins

Delivering value to the business faster thanks to Continuous Delivery and DevOps is the new mantra of IT organizations. In this webinar, CloudBees will discuss how Jenkins, the most popular open source Continuous Integration tool, allows DevOps teams to implement Continuous Delivery.

You will learn how to:
- Orchestrate Continuous Delivery pipelines with the new workflow feature,
- Scale Jenkins horizontally in your organization using Jenkins Operations Center by CloudBees,
- Implement end to end traceability with Jenkins and Puppet and Chef.
Date: November 19th

Time: 1:00pm eastern, 10:00am pacific
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About the Speaker:

Cyrille Le Clerc is Director of Product Management at CloudBees with more than 15 years experience in Java. Prior to CloudBees, Cyrille was Chief Technology Officer at Xebia. As an early adopter of the “you build it you run it” model, he put it in place for a number of high volume web sites. He naturally embraced DevOps culture. He is also very active in the Java community, creator of the open source project “embedded jmxtrans” and a speaker at various conferences.
November 3, 2014
CloudBees nurtures the Jenkins community to new highs
One of the linchpins in the DevOps tools box is Jenkins. Just about everyone knows Jenkins. For those few not familiar with Jenkins, here is an excerpt from the “What is Jenkins” page:

What is Jenkins?

Jenkins is an award-winning application that monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cron. Among those things, current Jenkins focuses on the following two jobs:
- Building/testing software projects continuously, just like CruiseControl or DamageControl. In a nutshell, Jenkins provides an easy-to-use so-called continuous integration system, making it easier for developers to integrate changes to the project, and making it easier for users to obtain a fresh build. The automated, continuous build increases the productivity.
- Monitoring executions of externally-run jobs, such as cron jobs and procmail jobs, even those that are run on a remote machine. For example, with cron, all you receive is regular e-mails that capture the output, and it is up to you to look at them diligently and notice when it broke. Jenkins keeps those outputs and makes it easy for you to notice when something is wrong.
Jenkins offers the following features:
1. Easy installation: Just java -jar jenkins.war, or deploy it in a servlet container. No additional install, no database.
2. Easy configuration: Jenkins can be configured entirely from its friendly web GUI with extensive on-the-fly error checks and inline help. There’s no need to tweak XML manually anymore, although if you’d like to do so, you can do that, too.
3. Change set support: Jenkins can generate a list of changes made into the build from Subversion/CVS. This is also done in a fairly efficient fashion, to reduce the load on the repository.
4. Permanent links: Jenkins gives you clean readable URLs for most of its pages, including some permalinks like “latest build”/”latest successful build”, so that they can be easily linked from elsewhere.
5. RSS/E-mail/IM Integration: Monitor build results by RSS or e-mail to get real-time notifications on failures.
6. After-the-fact tagging: Builds can be tagged long after builds are completed.
7. JUnit/TestNG test reporting: JUnit test reports can be tabulated, summarized, and displayed with history information, such as when it started breaking, etc. History trend is plotted into a graph.
8. Distributed builds: Jenkins can distribute build/test loads to multiple computers. This lets you get the most out of those idle workstations sitting beneath developers’ desks.
9. File fingerprinting: Jenkins can keep track of which build produced which jars, and which build is using which version of jars, and so on. This works even for jars that are produced outside Jenkins, and is ideal for projects to track dependency.
10. Plugin Support: Jenkins can be extended via 3rd party plugins. You can write plugins to make Jenkins support tools/processes that your team uses.
But beyond the wiki how did Jenkins become one of the most successful open source projects of all time? The answer to that has a lot to do with CloudBees, a little to do with Oracle and even more to do with an architecture that supports an ecosystem that has allowed almost a thousand plugins to be developed to the core project.

First let’s get the little do with Oracle out of the way. Jenkins was originally known as Hudson. Hudson was started by Sun Microsystems. When Oracle bought Sun it inherited a lot of open source projects (OpenOffice and Java among them). Many in the open source community questioned Oracle’s intentions regarding open source. It didn’t take long for a dispute to arise between many of the Hudson developers and Oracle. Oracle claimed they owned the term Hudson and that had an easy answer. There was a vote taken and Hudson became Jenkins. When Oracle objected, Jenkins became a fork of Hudson (or Hudson became a fork of Jenkins). Oracle still maintains Hudson, which is a shell compared to Jenkins.

In the meantime Sacha Labourey former CTO at JBoss, started CloudBees in 2010. This was after JBoss was acquired by Red Hat. CloudBees created a PaaS that was one of the first PaaS to support the entire application lifecycle from development to deployment. A key part of CloudBees offering was the Jenkins Continuous Integration (CI) engine. Labourey brought in Kohsuke Kawaguchi, a founder and key contributor to Jenkins. Along with Kawaguchi, several other key Jenkins contributors also came to CloudBees.

CloudBees and their employees contributed more than 80% of the code to Jenkins. Jenkins and the community that supports it is thriving. I had a chance to speak with Kawaguchi about this. He is very proud that there are over 1000 plugins now for Jenkins. I was blown away by a number of something like 500k downloads a month from the Jenkins website.

Of course a thriving open source community does not necessarily translate into a thriving commercial business. There have been many companies that never cracked the formula to monetize there open source success.

This is where CloudBees appears to be winning. I spoke to Kwaguchi about CloudBees commercial success. With offices around the world CloudBees has been able to translate an iconic open source project into a thriving business. They have a set of enterprise (ready pay for) plugins that enhance Jenkins in a number of ways. Additionally, the offer hosted versions of Jenkins, CI-a-a-S if you will. They call in Jenkins Operations Center. They also offer Dev@cloud, which is an umbrella for other services and software that enhance and make Jenkins easier to use across different platforms, with different languages and other options. Of course they offer support for your Jenkins installs as well.

All in all, Labourey and Kawaguchi have built a thriving commercial entity on top of Jenkins, while at the same time keeping Jenkins as a healthy, growing open source project. Kudos to them for a job well done.

That is not to say that there aren’t competitors to Jenkins. There are some open source projects and some commercial projects that claim to do CI better and faster. Of course many of them benefit from having Jenkins already there as a template and just improving incrementally on this already there. You can see a full list of Jenkins competitors at: https://www.g2crowd.com/products/jenkins/competitors/alternatives

While some of these competitors offer an improvement here or there, by and large Jenkins is still the standard against which they are measured. With CloudBees guiding and managing Jenkins, it will probably stay that way for the foreseeable future.
September 26, 2014