A cleaning strategy for a Docker registry

With the DevOps pipeline maturing and deployment of multiple containers for multiple micro-services taking place, it became evident quite quickly that space is running out and a cleaning strategy is needed. One way to do this is to clean the repository from images that are older than a set number … Continue reading →

Deploying to a Kubernetes cluster

As you may know, Kubernetes is all the rage these days. Kubernetes. Its feature list is impressive and it is no wonder why it is the go-to system of orchestrating your containers. Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized … Continue reading →

Explicitly triggering a Jenkins job using a keyword

Testing is important. To that end a developer should implement unit tests to assure any implemented code does what it is meant to do, and also integration tests with networking mocks to, for example, make sure endpoints do what they're supposed to do. Then there are end-to-end tests to assure that … Continue reading →

Failing builds when developers misbehave (code coverage)

Developers. They're kinda like little children sometimes, aren't they? You have to keep your eye open on 'em... Joking aside though, code coverage is an important aspect in software development. code coverage is a measure used to describe the degree to which the source code of a program is … Continue reading →

Skipping builds in a multi-branch job

Skipping builds in Jenkins is possible, there's a "CI Skip" plug-in for Jenkins, but this plug-in doesn't work with multi-branch jobs... How can you skip builds then in such a case? Here's my take on it. Of course, feel free to modify it for your pipeline's needs. I originally wrote about this … Continue reading →

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A cleaning strategy for a Docker registry

Deploying to a Kubernetes cluster

Explicitly triggering a Jenkins job using a keyword

Failing builds when developers misbehave (code coverage)

Skipping builds in a multi-branch job