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Kevin Martens

Kevin Martens is part of the CloudBees Documentation team, helping with Jenkins documentation creation and maintenance.

Building Android apps with Jenkins: release management

The previous blog post of this series discusses what I think makes CI/CD for mobile app development a unique kind of animal, and my first steps in building Android apps with Jenkins. We were left with a working declarative pipeline per branch, one Docker image per branch too, and an application binary ready to be deployed. Ready? Release management I was able to find...

Bruno Verachten
Kevin Martens May 2, 2023
Jenkins March 2023 Newsletter

Highlights Jenkins 2.397 and 2.387.2 are both using new Linux repository signing keys. The Pipeline graph view plugin continues to evolve and improve as a Pipeline visualization replacement for Blue Ocean. The number of pull requests merged for jenkins.io crossed into triple digits this month (101). Contributed by: Mark Waite Jenkins' installers for Debian and Red Hat have all been signed with new PGP private...

Alyssa Tong
Damien DUPORTAL
Kevin Martens
Mark Waite
Bruno Verachten
Kevin Guerroudj April 12, 2023
DigitalOcean and Jenkins partnership continues to grow!

The Jenkins project wants to acknowledge and share massive thanks to DigitalOcean for their continued sponsorship. Between August 2022 and March 2023, Jenkins had been using roughly $1,300 credits a month. During March, we encountered a severe increase in our DigitalOcean workloads. This was a result of much heavier reliance on DigitalOcean, as we worked to resolve other infrastructure concerns. In addition to this...

Kevin Martens April 12, 2023
Building Android apps with Jenkins: an introduction

Why is mobile CI/CD special? In 2020, a surprising 33% of professional mobile app developers were not using Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices, which is 18% more than web developers. There are several reasons why this is the case: Unique needs: Unlike web applications, mobile applications have different requirements, which means that mobile CI/CD requires a different approach and dedicated tools. Tightly controlled ecosystems:...

Bruno Verachten
Kevin Martens April 7, 2023
Android and Jenkins: what is the limit?

After reading the title, you may be thinking "Wait, what? Is Jenkins somehow limited in building Android apps?" You can relax, as I may have phrased it incorrectly. We’re not talking about building Android apps with Jenkins, which has no limitations as far as I know. We’re talking about building something with Jenkins, using an Android device as a Jenkins node, or potentially as...

Bruno Verachten
Kevin Martens March 30, 2023
miniJen and RISCV

Short Introduction What is miniJen? It’s the smallest Jenkins multi-cpu-architectures instance known to this day. It’s composed of a 4 arm Cortex-A55 core RockChip controller (aarch64), a 4 arm Cortex-A7a core AllWinner agent (armv7l), a 4 arm Cortex-A53 core AllWinner agent (aarch64), and a single RV64GCV core AllWinner agent (RISC-V). A bit of personal history I’ve been an arm fanboy for years, it all started...

Bruno Verachten
Kevin Martens March 10, 2023
Jenkins February 2023 Newsletter

Highlights FOSDEM 2023 insights Jenkins is a mentor organization for Google Summer of Code Several container image updates Jenkins Awards voting is now open Contributed by: Alyssa Tong FOSDEM 2023 Returning to FOSDEM for the first in-person event since COVID was both exciting and nostalgic for our Jenkins contributors. It was exciting to see the same crowd size and enthusiasm by attendees. Many thanks to the wonderful FOSDEM organizers...

Alyssa Tong
Damien DUPORTAL
Kevin Martens
Mark Waite
Kevin Guerroudj
Bruno Verachten March 9, 2023
Jenkins Contributor Awards - Voting Open

The 2023 Jenkins award nomination period has ended and voting is now open! Voting will take place until March 28, when the voting period closes, and the winners will be announced at this year’s cdCon. 2023 Award categories and nominees This year we have three awards, each with several nominees: Most Valuable Jenkins Advocate: Alexander Brandes Alex Earl Bruno Verachten Jean-Marc Meessen Kris Stern Mark Waite Most Valuable Jenkins Contributor: Alexander Brandes Damien...

Kevin Martens March 9, 2023
How to build an unsigned Jenkins MSI on your Windows machine

Should you ever need to rebuild a Jenkins MSI on your Windows machine, here is a way to do it. Pre-requisites Jenkins WAR file First, you should download the Jenkins war file that will be inside the MSI file. You can access it from the official Jenkins website or from the Jenkins update center. Check the Jenkins download page to download the latest weekly version...

Bruno Verachten
Alexander Brandes
Kevin Martens February 28, 2023