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Liam Newman

Liam started his software career as a tester, which might explain why he’s such a fan of CI/CD and Pipeline as Code. He has spent the majority of his software engineering career implementing Continuous Integration systems at companies big and small. He is a Jenkins project contributor and an expert in Jenkins Pipeline, both Scripted and Declarative. Liam currently works as a Jenkins Evangelist at CloudBees. When not at work, he enjoys testing gravity by doing Aikido.

Getting Started with Blue Ocean's Visual Pipeline Editor

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Blue Ocean is a new user experience for Jenkins, and version 1.0 is now live! Blue Ocean makes Jenkins, and continuous delivery, approachable to all team members. In my previous post, I explained how to install Blue Ocean on your local Jenkins instance and switch to using Blue Ocean. As promised, here’s a screencast that...

Liam Newman April 6, 2017
Getting Started with Blue Ocean

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Welcome to Blue Ocean 1.0! In case you’ve been heads down on other projects for the past 10 months, Blue Ocean is a new user experience for Jenkins, and version 1.0 was released today! Blue Ocean makes Jenkins, and continuous delivery, approachable to all team members. I’ve been working with it for the past several months,...

Liam Newman April 5, 2017
Browser testing and conditional logic in Declarative Pipeline

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Declare Your Pipelines! Declarative Pipeline 1.0 is here! This is the fourth post in a series showing some of the cool features of Declarative Pipeline. In the previous post, we integrated several notification services into a Declarative Pipeline. We kept our Pipeline clean and easy to understand by using a shared library to make a custom step called...

Liam Newman February 23, 2017
Declarative Pipeline: Notifications and Shared Libraries

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Declare Your Pipelines! Declarative Pipeline 1.0 is here! This is the third post in a series showing some of the cool features of Declarative Pipeline. In the previous post, we converted a Scripted Pipeline to a Declarative Pipeline, adding descriptive stages and post sections. In one of those post blocks, we included a placeholder for sending notifications. In...

Liam Newman February 15, 2017
Declarative Pipeline: Publishing HTML Reports

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Declare Your Pipelines! Declarative Pipeline 1.0 is here! This is the second post in a series showing some of the cool features of Declarative Pipeline. In the previous blog post, we created a simple Declarative Pipeline. In this blog post, we’ll go back and look at the Scripted Pipeline for the Publishing HTML Reports in Pipeline blog post. We’ll...

Liam Newman February 10, 2017
Declarative Pipeline for Maven Projects

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Declare Your Pipelines! Declarative Pipeline 1.0 is here! This is first in a series of blog posts that will show some of the cool features of Declarative Pipeline. For several of these posts, I’ll be revisiting some of my previous posts on using various plugins with (Scripted) Pipeline, and seeing how those are implemented in Declarative Pipeline. To...

Liam Newman February 7, 2017
Converting Conditional Build Steps to Jenkins Pipeline

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. Introduction With all the new developments in Jenkins Pipeline (and Declarative Pipeline on the horizon), it’s easy to forget what we did to create "pipelines" before Pipeline. There are number of plugins, some that have been around since the very beginning, that enable users to create "pipelines" in Jenkins. For example, basic job chaining worked well in many...

Liam Newman January 19, 2017
xUnit and Pipeline

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. The JUnit plugin is the go-to test result reporter for many Jenkins projects, but the it is not the only one available. The xUnit plugin is a viable alternative that supports JUnit and many other test result file formats. Introduction No matter the project, you need to gather and report test results. JUnit is one of the...

Liam Newman October 31, 2016
Jenkins World 2016 Session Videos

This is a guest post by Liam Newman, Technical Evangelist at CloudBees. The videos of the sessions from Jenkins World 2016 are up! I’ve updated the wrap-up posts with links to each of the sessions mentioned: Jenkins Pipeline Scaling Jenkins Ask the Experts & Demos You can also find video from all the sessions here. Enjoy!...

Liam Newman October 18, 2016

Getting Started with Blue Ocean's Visual Pipeline Editor

Getting Started with Blue Ocean

Browser testing and conditional logic in Declarative Pipeline

Declarative Pipeline: Notifications and Shared Libraries

Declarative Pipeline: Publishing HTML Reports

Declarative Pipeline for Maven Projects

Converting Conditional Build Steps to Jenkins Pipeline

xUnit and Pipeline

Jenkins World 2016 Session Videos