Seven Habits of Highly Effective Jenkins Users
summary
Describes concrete ops habits for large Jenkins deployments: running LTS releases, backing up Jenkins home (or using thin backup), keeping an upgrade testbed, and avoiding the built‑in Maven job type at scale; recommends splitting into multiple masters (examples: three masters with 1,000+ jobs each, nearly 5,000 jobs total), modularizing with parameterized triggers/conditional build steps, automating with Groovy/script console and job DSL plugin, pruning risky plugins, and making slaves fungible with pre‑baked images via Packer.
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chapters (29)
- 0:00Who am I
- 0:55What is this talk about
- 2:00Recommendations
- 2:39Use LTS releases
- 3:54Be conservative with plugins
- 5:14Have an upgrade testbed
- 6:36Back up Jenkins configuration
- 9:09Avoid using the Maven Job Type
- 10:09Break up the Bloat
- 11:20Multi Job Build
- 12:21Tools for Multi Job Build
- 13:30Automated Jenkins Tasks
- 14:30Job Changes
- 15:26Groovy Scripts
- 16:46Generate Jobsprogrammatically
- 17:38DSL plugins
- 19:48Workflow plugin
- 21:29Garden plugin
- 21:59Plugins
- 23:23Remove Unused Plugins
- 24:24Essential Plugins
- 30:10Global Configuration
- 31:21Integration
- 32:05GitHub Pull Requests
- 33:47Maven Repos
- 34:49Make your slaves fungible
- 35:31Create to recreate your build environments
- 37:25Use the cloud
- 39:15Join the community
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