Jenkins 2.0 - Next Generation of Pipeline as Code
I’ve recently been working with the new pipeline plugin dsl in Jenkins 2.0 and the more I work with it the more I like it - I truly believe that it’s the next generation of pipeline as code even though it has several limitations and gotchas that I will describe. A brief history of pipelines and job generation in Jenkins Pre Jenkins 2.0 was simply not designed for complex Continuous Delivery pipelines. What the community created with plugins such as Build pipeline plugin and Delivery pipeline plugin was basically a hack, sewing together separate jobs by passing parameters to them. While functionally it was basically just a big ugly hack underneath with lots of overhead. ...