The Jenkins project documents the controller/agent trust model in its controller isolation guide. The short version is that anyone who can change a pipeline can execute code on an agent, so agents are a trust boundary. This guide applies…
Day 77 of DevOps, Day 27 of Azure. Both tasks today were about a path that exists until it doesn't. A two-line shell script deployed an application and quietly depended on three things nobody had checked. And an Azure VM built with…
Day 76 of DevOps, Day 26 of Azure. Both tasks today went green, and both were quietly resting on something that will not hold. A database backup job ran on schedule, produced a file, copied it across two machines, and backed up…
Git vs GitHub vs GitLab comes down to two price tags and one free tool. Git costs nothing. GitHub lists its Team plan at $4 per user per month, and GitLab lists Premium at $29 per user per month, billed annually. Those…
Consider a hypothetical small team in this situation. The deploy works, nobody remembers the exact sequence of commands, and the one person who does is on holiday. The pipeline can stay small when the team limits its scope to the…
In modern DevOps environments, security and governance are just as important as speed and automation. As organizations increasingly rely on Jenkins to manage continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, ensuring that users have the right level of access becomes crucial.
Day 74 of DevOps, Day 24 of Azure. Both tasks today were about SSH keys, and specifically about which way round they point. A Jenkins job needed one server to be able to reach another. An Azure task started by checking whether…
Pipelines are available on Team and Enterprise. Community has no CI/CD menu, and the steps in this article do not apply there. The screenshots use the pipeline mcp-sample-fail on the example repository xlliu/test-cicd-example, and its run #3. This run…
PikVue - Smart Tech Tool Reviews A good CI/CD pipeline is the difference between shipping confidently and deploying with anxiety. Pipelines across GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and self-hosted Drone CI cover everything from single-page apps to microservice monorepos. This guide…
Introduction Before GitHub Actions and GitLab CI made pipelines a checkbox, there was... Tagged with jenkins, tools, beginners, programming. Before GitHub Actions and GitLab CI made pipelines a checkbox, there was Jenkins: an open-source automation server, released in 2011, that has…
Build/test/deploy across GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, and progressive delivery.
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