Jenkins 2.0 - Next Generation of Pipeline as Code

Tue, 18 Oct 2016 18:43:43 +0000

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.

Jenkins Continuous-Delivery on Roger Welin

Jenkins 2.0 - Next Generation of Pipeline as Code

A brief history of pipelines and job generation in Jenkins