At this year's Electric Cloud Summit there was big focus on Agile software development practices. Even a casual look at Electric Cloud's product line, which includes ElectricAccelerator, ElectricCommander, and most recently ElectricDeploy, will make it obvious that...
Continuous Integration (CI) is a software development methodology that uses small and frequent incremental changes to the code base, which are incorporated into a rapid build and test environment. Each change integrated into the source repository is verified by the...
Change is on the horizon for organizations relying on the CloudBees Jenkins Platform (CJP). With CJP now designated as a legacy product, a migration to CloudBees CI or an alternative CI solution is imperative. In this blog post, we will cover the ‘need-to-know’ info...
Building out a great release process? You may benefit from using CloudBees feature management solution. When you’re building your release process, you may notice issues arising. For example, as a result of working at the wrong layer of abstraction when you deploy a...
The CloudBees Jenkins Platform (CJP) will move to End of Life (EOL) on June 30, 2023. And, after this date, CloudBees will no longer provide any technical support, patches, or upgrades for CJP. However, the option to complete a CJP migration to other CI platforms,...
In October 2022, I wrote a blog post entitled “Scaling Jenkins for the Enterprise”. Within it, I described the “Islands of Jenkins” problem organizations face. Essentially, this problem stems from companies using an open-source Jenkins installation for each team, but...
DevOps World 2022 was originally set to take place in Orlando, FL on Wednesday 28th September and Thursday 29th September. Unfortunately, Hurricane Ian had other plans and the DevOps World in-person component was canceled. Instead, a virtual conference was launched....
Today, CloudBees announced that SPK and Associates has received CloudBees Service Partner of the year award in 2022. This includes exceptional efforts in developing new business, thought leadership, and products and services that complement CloudBees technology...
I’m Michael Roberts, Vice President for SPK. And I want to tell you the tricks for scaling your business effectively with a Jenkins enterprise solution. I'll also explain how to avoid, and remediate both a Jenkins monolith, and islands of Jenkins. In the early part of...
Moving quickly and safely can be a fine balance for many businesses. There’s a need to get products to market, fast and an equal need to mitigate risks. How can you quickly release updates of your software product to the market but be able to revert updates if...
There’s been a lot of innovation, software and product releases in the past six months alone. So, we are rounding up the best tech review and engineering releases for the first half of 2022. The tech forecast for 2022 was heavily influenced by how the world adjusted...
Tired of missing deadlines, and only measuring performance of departments, but not of your entire software delivery organization? This blog will show you how CloudBees Software Delivery Automation (CloudBees SDA) can break down silos, drive DevOps mentality and...