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Michael Neale

Michael is a CD enthusiast with a interest in User Experience. He is a co-founder of CloudBees and a long time OSS developer, and can often be found lurking around the jenkins-dev mailing list or #jenkins on irc (same nick as twitter name). Before CloudBees he worked at Red Hat.

Blue Ocean Dev Log: February Week #1

With only a couple of months left before Blue Ocean 1.0, which is planned for the end of March, I have been highlighting some of the good work being finished up by the developers hacking on Blue Ocean. This week was a grab bag of important behind-the-scenes features and finalising the preview of the editor. The merge of the SCM API changes also made it in. The editor has...

Michael Neale February 3, 2017
Blue Ocean Dev Log: January Week #4

As we get closer to Blue Ocean 1.0, which is planned for the end of March, I have started highlighting some of the good stuff that has been going on. This week was 10 steps forward, and about 1.5 backwards… There were two releases this week, b19 and b20. Unfortunately, b20 had to be released shortly after b19 hit the Update Center as an incompatible API change in...

Michael Neale January 27, 2017
Blue Ocean Dev Log: January Week #3

As we get closer to Blue Ocean 1.0, which is planned for the end of March, I have started highlighting some of the good stuff that has been going on, and this week was a very busy week. A new Blue Ocean beta (b18) was released with: Parametrized pipelines are now supported! i18n improvements Better support for matrix and the evil (yet somehow still used) Maven project type...

Michael Neale January 20, 2017
Blue Ocean Dev Log: January Week #2

As we get closer to Blue Ocean 1.0, which is planned for the end of March, I figured it would be great to highlight some of the good stuff that has been going on. It’s been a busy-as-usual week as everyone comes back from vacation. A couple of new betas went out this week. Of note: input to Pipelines is now supported, a much asked...

Michael Neale January 13, 2017
Don't install software, define your environment with Docker and Pipeline

This is a guest post by Michael Neale, long time open source developer and contributor to the Blue Ocean project. If you are running parts of your pipeline on Linux, possibly the easiest way to get a clean reusable environment is to use: CloudBees Docker Pipeline plugin. In this short post I wanted to show how you can avoid installing stuff on the agents, and have per...

Michael Neale August 8, 2016
Making your own DSL with plugins, written in Pipeline script

In this post I will show how you can make your own DSL extensions and distribute them as a plugin, using Pipeline Script. A quick refresher Pipeline has a well kept secret: the ability to add your own DSL elements. Pipeline is itself a DSL, but you can extend it. There are 2 main reasons I can think you may want to do this: You want...

Michael Neale April 21, 2016