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(This is a guest post from Gareth Bowles, a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix.) Jenkins has been a central part of the Netflix build and deploy infrastructure for several years now, and we’ve been attending and speaking at JUC since it started in 2011. It’s a great opportunity to meet people who are as passionate about build, test and deployment automation as we are - although as Kohsuke said last year, having all those folks in one place could be dangerous if there’s an earthquake ! CloudBees and the JUC Organizing Committee have put another great program together this year. We’ll be doing two talks. Justin Ryan and Curt Patrick will present "Configuration as Code: Adoption of the Job DSL Plugin at Netflix", describing how we’re shifting our users from manual job configuration via the UI, to defining their jobs as Groovy code using the Job DSL plugin. Justin and Curt will describe how Netflix development teams can now create and maintain complex sets of jobs for their projects with the bare minimum of coding. In my lightning talk "Managing Jenkins with Jenkins", I’ll go over how we use Jenkins' system Groovy scripts to maintain and monitor our Jenkins controllers at a scale that couldn’t be achieved with manual processes, and without the overhead of writing custom plugins. As usual, there will be a whole crew of Netflix engineers at JUC this year. If you’re interested in working on build and deployment at Netflix scale, find one of us (we’ll all be wearing Netflix gear) to learn more - we’re hiring ! Register for JUC - October 23 in Palo Alto. If you can’t make it in person, register to watch the live stream!

(This is a guest post from Owen B. Mehegan aka autojack) + + + The Jenkins User Conference - Palo Alto is coming up on October 23rd! The schedule for talks is full, but we've been looking for a way to give other members of the Jenkins community some visibility. There are many people who have contributed to the project in various ways, whether it's contributing to core, developing plugins, writing documentation or just helping new users. + + + If this sounds like you, we're interested in giving you 10-15 minutes to talk to the rest of the conference attendees! The format is currently undefined and may be left up to you. You could do a Q&A, talk about features you've worked on and why they were important to you, or just offer some "pro tips" that you've developed based on your experience. The main point is to help put faces to some of the names in the community, and also help encourage others to contribute themselves! We're thinking of having these sessions during lunch and the exhibit hour (https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/juc2013/juc2013-palo-alto.cb[see here for the schedule]). + + + If you're interested in this, or know someone else who might be that I could contact, please let me (owen at nerdnetworks dot org) know! If we can get some critical mass around it then we'll go ahead. + + + Thanks!

+ + The latest edition of Continuous Information is out for your reading pleasure. + Highlights: + Health Check-up for Jenkins: Kohsuke’s Tips on Keeping Jenkins Happy Jenkins continues to take over the world, with more than 65,000 active installations and more than 800 plugins Events: Jenkins User Conference – 10/23 in Palo Alto, CA (use discount code BEE-JUC); Jenkins Scalability Summit 10/24; and more Jenkins made the SD Times 2013 Top 100! What’s new in Jenkins? The hottest new Jenkins improvements… How to build your own Jenkins Traffic Light + + https://pages.cloudbees.com/index.php/email/emailWebview?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonvanBZKXonjHpfsX%2B4%2B0uT%2Frn28M3109ad%2BrmPBy82IoIWp8na%2BqWCgseOrQ8kFQLV9C%2BRs0Vq6c%3D[Read the whole newsletter], and then https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/jenkins-ci/jenkins-newsletter.cb[sign up to receive it directly when it comes out]. + + + PS - We love contributions to Continuous Information, so if you have a Jenkins tip, trick, or plugin you’d like to feature, please mailto:continuous-information@cloudbees.com[email us].

+ The Jenkins User Conference (JUC) Palo Alto is less than two months away! + The organizing committee, 13 sponsors and 16 speakers have been hard at work coordinating a fun and educational day for the Jenkins community on October 23. Check out the https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/juc2013/juc2013-palo-alto.cb[agenda] and see for yourself! Speakers are traveling from around the globe to take part in this conference, including a number of usual suspects. Dedicated Jenkins experts are coming in from London, Israel, Estonia, Sweden, Taiwan, Boston, Seattle, Texas and, of course, the local Bay Area. + + + New this year, we’ll live stream an entire track, courtesy of our Silver sponsor, https://confreaks.com/[Confreaks]. + + + In keeping with tradition, every year we create a one-of-a-kind Jenkins t-shirt for JUC attendees. This year we are sticking with the ever-popular landmark of Palo Alto, Stanford University. And we are going bright…hope you like (Jenkins) red! + + + + + + + We are always on the look out for unique and creative ideas for Jenkins t-shirt designs. If you have a cool design in mind please send it to `+events@lists.jenkins-ci.org+`. You may just see the Jenkins community wearing your design at next year’s conference. + + + Also check out the great Jenkins collectible that https://www.cloudbees.com[CloudBees], the Platinum sponsor, is giving out at the CloudBees table (I heard he looks even better in person). Quantity is limited so be sure to pick one up at the CloudBees table. You might have to sing, dance, bark or just complete a survey in exchange for the Jenkins bobble head. Most importantly, don’t forget to have Kohsuke sign it to make it official. + + + + + + + JUC isn’t complete without some good BEvERages. Gold sponsor https://www.bds.com[Black Diamond Software] is ponying up a keg of beer after the conference. Leave us a comment (below) about what kind of beer strikes your fancy and it might just be there. + + + If you’ve read this entire blog and have not yet registered to https://www.eventbrite.com/event/6367028955[attend], here’s additional incentive for you. Use discount code *BEE-JUC* to get early bird pricing, that’s a $26 saving off the current price of $80. Discount expires October 4, 2013. + + + As JUC Conference Chair, I am always looking for ways to improve JUC. Leave your comments below on ways we can make this ‘Your’ conference. + + + Looking forward to seeing you at JUC on October 23. + + + Alyssa Tong + JUC Conference Chair

+ image:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Palo_Alto%2C_CA_welcome_sign.JPG/180px-Palo_Alto%2C_CA_welcome_sign.JPG[image] + + + + Jenkins User Conference is back to California again! + + + Just like the last two years, this full day event packs talks from Jenkins developers and users, and it would be a great opportunity for Jenkins users to get to know each other and share their experiences. + + + https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/juc2013/juc2013-palo-alto.cb[The agenda is already posted], covering everything from robotics to mobile developments, effective management of Jenkins instances to branching techniques. I'm personally looking forward to a number of talks from serious large-scale users, and https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/juc2013/juc2013-israel.cb[JUC Israel] was of any indication, it'd be a great opportunity to get feedback from people. + + + This year, we are moving the event to a weekday (Oct 23rd) to see if it helps or hurts the attendance. Similarly, the event is now in Palo Alto, as opposed to San Francisco. The site also happens to be a former Sun Microsystems headquarter, a place of some nostalgic value to me. + + + I am also very happy to see a number of active community members https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/juc2013/juc2013-palo-alto.cb[signing up their employers to sponsor the event]. These will help us manage the cost of the event. + + + So really, all that's needed is YOU! https://www.eventbrite.com/event/6367028955[Please register for the event] (I believe the early bird price stays until this Friday), and looking forward to seeing you.

Seize the opportunity to join the Jenkins community! Just like last year, the Scandinavian Jenkins Conference will be in Copenhagen, Denmark, hosted by Praqma and sponsored by CloudBees, Sony, Switch::Gears, and PRQA. The open source community will gather on September 6th for a full day of networking and knowledge sharing at The Department of Computer Science at The University of Copenhagen. Based on last year’s success, Jenkins developers, architects, business managers, etc. from all over the world will gather to exchange experiences and promote the open source platform. As a special feature the conference will include an opening keynote from Jenkins founder Kohsuke Kawaguchi as well as other industry pioneers, who will take the podium to present findings within the latest technology, best practice, hand-on experiences, etc. To get updates on the conference follow the JCI13Blog where you can view the latest news on venue and speakers.

+ https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/juc2013/juc2013-israel.cb[Jenkins User Conference in Israel] was held this year on a different venue than the last year, because we have grown! I believe Shlomi Ben-Haim of JFrog said in his opening speech that the attendance has grown more than 50%, despite the ticket price increase. + + + This year, the event was held at a former Kibbutz turned into an event facility. This was rather fit for Jenkins for both emphasizes the community. The auditorium was big, the sky was bright & clear, and it was a wonderful day. JFrog folks even made a few Jenkins drapes (that I eventually brought back with me, so expect to see them) + + + + + + + For me, talks like one from Haggai are more interesting, as it shows me how Jenkins works in a domain that I’m not familiar with (in this case, .NET). And if you are Jenkins users, there are all sorts of talks, ranging from talks on CLI/XML interface of Jenkins (stuff for those who are writing tools and scripts that interface with Jenkins) to how someone managed user interface automation testing with Jenkins. Another talk that I got hooked was a talk from https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/juc2013/juc2013-israel-abstracts.cb#YardenaMeymann[Yardena Meymann] about the review board Jenkins plugin that she wrote that lets you test out code change under the review, much the same way https://buildhive.cloudbees.com/[BuildHive] or https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Github+pull+request+builder+plugin[GitHub pull request builder plugin] does it for GitHub pull requests, but for Subversion. I also liked the 45 minutes format better, which helps cut the fat and take people straight to the point. + + + Outside talks, Israeli people kept me busy! They cornered me on multiple occasions and we had a lot of interesting conversations, so much so that I missed about half the talks! I just wish we had coordinated this upfront so that I could have visited them while I was there. This also made me wonder what if we designate one corner of the site and did a series of birds-of-feather around specific topics. This led me to try https://www.meetup.com/jenkinsmeetup/events/126595572/[Jenkins Scalability Summit] in the upcoming JUC Palo Alto. + + + https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/juc2013/juc2013-israel.cb[All the slides and videos are available], if you want to take a look --- be forewarned that some of them are in Hebrew. + + + If you aren’t in Israel but like the concept of JUC, looking forward to seeing you in the upcoming https://www.eventbrite.com/event/6367028955[Jenkins User Conference in Palo Alto] this October.

Your favorite Butler will visit Israel on June 6 for the Jenkins User Conference Israel. More than 200 people have already registered to hobnob with other Jenkins users and eat like kings. The agenda is up here. You’ll find a great list of speakers from Israel, Europe and the US to compliment a plethora of treats. There will be an ice cream break, fruits break, beer break and special chef lunch. And everyone gets a limited-edition JUC Israel t-shirt, designed by the t-shirt-design gurus at JFrog. Featured speakers: Kohsuke Kawaguchi, the creator of Jenkins (formerly, Hudson) and elite architect at CloudBees, will deliver a keynote about the current state and the future roadmap of Jenkins. Hans Dockter, the creator of Gradle and the founder of Gradleware will speak about next generation build tool to CI server integration. Fred Simon, JFrog’s co-founder and Chef architect will share JFrog’s vision of the future of continous integration in the cloud. ** Many thanks to lead sponsors JFrog and CloudBees, who have put a lot of time and energy into organizing the conference. Thanks also to sponsors Cloudify and White Source for showing their support for Jenkins! Register here. Can’t make it to Israel? Here are more Jenkins events: Moving to Continuous Delivery in the Enterprise — June 10, London Jenkins Meetup — June 15, Munich Jenkins User Event — September 6, Copenhagen Jenkins User Conference — October 23, Palo Alto, CA