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JUC Speaker Blog Series: David Dang, JUC U.S. East

I’ve implemented numerous test automation projects for clients, but recently I had a unique request. Jenkins plays a critical role.

The “digital channel” is an industry buzzword for many companies these days. The digital channel represents a company’s content that is delivered by websites and mobile devices. Companies want the same website to work across any channel in multiple browsers and different operating systems. They also want that same website to work across an explosion of mobile devices. Add the new generation of smart watches showing up and testing is becoming a huge challenge for IT departments. One big issue is there is too much duplication of testing efforts.

In a perfect world, you would create a core set of test automation scripts that work across all digital channels. A client recently requested that my team and I create this perfect-world scenario, and we are doing just that. Jenkins pulls it all together by managing the execution and reporting.

Join me for my talk to learn how I’m using Jenkins, Selenium, TestNG, and Perfecto Mobile to solve the digital channel testing challenges for one client.

This post is by David Dang, VP of Automation Solutions at Zenergy Technologies. If you have your ticket to JUC U.S. East, you can attend his talk "Integrating Mobile Automation with Jenkins: A Case Study Using Perfecto Mobile with Jenkins" on Day 1.

Still need your ticket to JUC? Early bird pricing has been extended! Also, if you register with a friend you can get 2 tickets for the price of 1! Register here for a JUC near you.
JUC Speaker Blog Series: Andrew Bayer, JUC Europe

In the fall of 2011, the very first Jenkins User Conference was held in San Francisco. Over 250 people showed up. It was, to be completely honest, a bit shocking to me - that little project I’d gotten involved with less than three years earlier was big enough, interesting enough, important enough for 250 people to travel from around the world to spend a day talking about it? That’s an amazing feeling, and it was an amazing day. Since then, there’ve been three more JUCs in the Bay Area, three in Israel and two in Europe, with more talks on more Jenkins subjects and an ever-increasing number of attendees. This year, there are another four scheduled - three of them for two days each this time! Find out more about the first two, JUC US East and JUC Europe, below!

Not only are there enough worthy talks to merit a full day a few times a year - now there are enough to merit two days! At JUC US East 2015 outside Washington, DC on June 18 and 19, you can see talks on the Workflow plugin for Jenkins, test automation, mobile testing, plugin development, and a few talks on new and fascinating ways people are using Jenkins - even driving big data workflows! And then, just a few days later, on June 23 and 24 in London, there’s JUC Europe 2015, with talks covering things like the fantastic Job DSL plugin, reproducible build environments, Jenkins and Docker together, and my personal favorite, the 2015 edition of my Seven Habits of Highly Effective Jenkins Users talk.

Whether you’re interested in the latest innovations in continuous integration and delivery, or you’re a Jenkins plugin developer wanting to learn how to make your plugins more mature and useful, or you’re a Jenkins administrator trying to understand how to provide your users with a great platform for their builds and testing, or even if you’ve just heard about CI/CD and you want to find out more, the Jenkins User Conferences are a great opportunity to see all those things and meet with other Jenkins users and developers. I’m excited to attend my fifth JUC in London, and I hope to see you there!

This post is by Andrew Bayer, build and tools architect at Cloudera and longtime Jenkins contributor. If you have your ticket to JUC Europe, you can attend his talk "Seven Habits of Highly Effective Jenkins Users" on Day 1.

Still need your ticket to JUC? Early bird pricing ends May 15. Also, if you register with a friend you can get 2 tickets for the price of 1! Register here for a JUC near you.
JUC Speaker Blog Series: Lorelei McCollum, JUC U.S. East

Have you heard Jenkins mentioned, but haven't really done much with it? Are you at JUC because you want to learn more? Has your company been pushing you to use Jenkins or to adapt a more agile build/test process using a Continuous Delivery/Continuous Integration method?

Jenkins 101 is going to give you an introduction to Jenkins and get you started in the right direction. Many sessions may be too in-depth, too specialized, or do a deep dive too fast, and while that is good for the more intermediate Jenkins user, the beginner can get lost fast and lose interest. My session will go through the basics of Jenkins, so anyone without prior knowledge can get up and running in just a short amount of time. We will cover building/configuring jobs, design of pipelines, security of your Jenkins master, fun groovy scripts and useful plugins to get you started. Whether you are a beginner or an advanced Jenkins user, you can always learn from how others are using Jenkins. Attend this session early on in your JUC lineup, so that you get the most out of the conference!

This post is by Lorelei McCollum, Software Engineer at IBM. If you have your ticket to JUC U.S. East, you can attend her talk "Jenkins 101" on Day 1.

Still need your ticket to JUC? Early bird pricing ends May 15. Also, if you register with a friend you can get 2 tickets for the price of 1! Register here for a JUC near you.
JUC Speaker Blog Series: Denis Chernilevskiy, JUC Europe

Jenkins is a great tool for automation of all kinds of processes in the software development cycle. Falling back to the year 2008 I remember myself creating my first job and the feeling of enlightenment flowing through my veins :) Then it was just one script running on just one slave (node) and it was enough for that particular task. But years have passed, software systems have become more complicated and terms like «cloud», «distributed environment», «CI/CD» are not a discovery for anyone nowadays. But how can these things be connected and used by Jenkins? The detailed answer for this question will be revealed in my presentation of "compound-cloud" plugin at JUC Europe 2015.

Before I got to Yandex, the QA's automation concept was the following:

  • The job takes 1 free slave
  • The job installs the system under test and tests themselves to this node
  • The job runs tests
  • The job cleans-up and returns the slave back to the pool

When I started working for Yandex I understood that the concept of one single slave for a job is not a solution for our tasks because of one particular reason - the system under test was not able to work on a single node… This system is a Yandex MediaAd platform and it requires at least 4 separate nodes to be run on. Better - 8 nodes. Optimal - 40 nodes :)

Thinking about the problem, we thought we would get closer to the solution by simply using a single Jenkins slave as a launchpad for tests and for some tools which will then get some more nodes from the cloud (we already had OpenStack ready) and deploy the system inside them. Thank God we haven’t implemented this solution :)

We’ve been stopped by the following reasons:

  • We are lazy and want to write as little code as possible :)
  • There’s a JClouds plugin that can work with OpenStack. Why don’t we use it? 'Cause it provisions only 1 slave per job. But it has provisioning algorithms implemented already, and we don’t want to reimplement them…
  • If we create cloud instances with a separate tool, then we have to manage them separately and can’t get profit of using Jenkins’ slave management, which is also implemented already…
  • if we do so, we also lose Jenkins’ slave features like running a script on the slave, get some reports or statistics and so on
  • We would also lose visibility: how many slaves we have, how many are busy, how many left til we get to the cloud quota limit? We could go to OpenStack panel then, but it’s totally inconvenient…

As a result of this reasoning, the idea emerged! «We should provide an ability to either attach several slaves to a job, or to allow a slave to consist of several nodes». The second way seemed to give more order in slaves management and it was stated to be a final solution for our problem. We called this concept a «compound-slave». And then we coded...

That’s how the compound-cloud plugin was born. It allows us to get such compound-slaves from any cloud plugin installed to Jenkins. Of course there’s also a possibility to form a compound slave from single slaves already attached to Jenkins, but it’s not the true way for hardcore IT guys ;)

Of course there are lots of details on how we use this concept in a real life for our purposes (and I will surely describe the main parts of them in my speech), but here’s a short list of common use-cases:

  • We configure a set of labels via the JClouds plugin. Each label represents 1 slave template, like «small_ubuntu_server» or «large_win_server».
  • We then configure a compound-slave label via compound-сloud plugin. Each label is a set of single cloud labels. As a result we have a label like «Small test env» consisting of "1x large WinServer + 3x small Ubuntu».
  • We assign roles to each single node in a compound label, to be able to distinguish them, so the job can run a script on a particular node inside a compound-slave for example.
  • We assign a label to a job, like it’s done for a JClouds label, for example.
  • When the job starts, a compound-slave provisions from the cloud using the corresponding compound label.
  • We run a deployment tool on a ROOT role node of a compound-slave. It then deploys the system under test to other nodes inside this compound-slave.
  • We run tests.
  • We don’t bother with creating/cleaning/stopping/deleting slaves. It’s done by Jenkins.
  • We get profit :)

The core feature is that we've reused all the provisioning and management mechanisms already implemented in Jenkins and cloud plugins. We just run our jobs and don’t care about the distributed infrastructure!

This post is by Denis Chernilevskiy, the head of QA/DevOps Services at Yandex. If you have your ticket to JUC Europe, you can attend his talk "Multi-Node Environment as a Jenkins Slave (Compound-Slave)" on Day 2.

Still need your ticket to JUC? Early bird pricing ends May 15. Also, if you register with a friend you can get 2 tickets for the price of 1! Register here for a JUC near you.
JIRA migration this weekend

In continuing my infra upgrade work, this weekend I'll be migrating JIRA to another server.

This will make upgrade more manageable and testable. The service will be disrupted for a few hours. Check out our @jenkinsci on Twitter for up-to-the-minute status.

Once the migration is done, the next step is to upgrade them.

Releases

Docker Plugin 0.9.2
Timestamper 1.6.2
AWS Lambda Plugin 0.2.3
Beaker Builder Plugin 1.8
Docker Plugin 0.9.1

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