Running Jenkins in AWS is simple using Fargate, but what if we need Jenkins itself to build Docker images? Learn how to use Kaniko from Jenkins to easily build and push a Docker image, keeping your CI pipelines totally serverless.
Deploying Jenkins into AWS ECS using CDK
Deploying Jenkins into AWS ECS requires careful consideration to make sure you’re following best-practice. Learn how to deploy a production-ready Jenkins instance in just a few lines of code, using the power of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK).
5 ways to inject secrets from AWS into Jenkins pipelines
Jenkins provides first-class support for injecting Jenkins-defined credentials into pipelines and freestyle projects. With time, this approach can become cumbersome to manage. Discover 5 better ways to manage secrets required by your Jenkins jobs, instead using AWS for the heavy lifting.
Top Gradle 7 features & improvements
Gradle 7.0 was released on 9th April 2021, and includes some important new features and improvements. Discover what’s new, and what the benefits could be for your Gradle project.
SonarQube branch analysis
In this article you’ll learn how to setup SonarQube branch analysis to check the quality of both master and feature branches, finding potential issues even earlier in the development lifecycle.
Gradle dependency tree
In this article you’ll learn how to view the dependency tree, so you can understand fully how you project is built and resolve common issues.
All about the Gradle task graph
A powerful Gradle feature is its ability to setup dependencies between tasks, creating a task graph. Learn all about the task graph, how to add tasks to it, and how to print it out.
3 surprising facts about AWS SQS FIFO queues
The first-in-first-out (FIFO) queue is the type of AWS SQS queue that guarantees order and provides exactly once delivery of messages. That sounds great, but there are some other important features to understand to avoid unexpected queue behaviour. In this article you’ll discover the 3 most important caveats with SQS FIFO queues. 1) If a […]
Running Jenkins slave agents in another VPC using VPC endpoints
With this advanced tutorial, you’ll learn how to implement a common use case of deploying Jenkins slave agents into another VPC within the same AWS account.
3 options for cross-account VPC access in AWS
Using separate AWS accounts provides strong separation of resources, which is great until the point you need cross-account access from a VPC in one account to another. In this article you’ll learn 3 ways to setup a secure connection across accounts, with full working examples you can try out yourself. Why do we need cross-account […]