{"id":8832,"date":"2017-04-21T14:56:40","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T13:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devopsonline.co.uk\/?p=8832"},"modified":"2017-04-21T14:56:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T13:56:40","slug":"open-sourced-ux-implementation-to-aid-devops-teams-adopt-continuous-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devopsnews.online\/open-sourced-ux-implementation-to-aid-devops-teams-adopt-continuous-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"Open sourced UX implementation to aid DevOps teams adopt continuous delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Jenkins project, comprised of a community of practitioners using Jenkins, has announced the official release (1.0) and general availability of Blue Ocean, its new UX implementation.<\/p>\n

The software launch brings a new user experience to Jenkins based on a personalised, modern design that allows users to graphically create, visualise and diagnose continuous delivery pipelines.<\/p>\n

Allowing less experience members of DevOps teams to use Jenkins<\/h2>\n

This is more than just putting a modern face on Jenkins: Blue Ocean re-imagines the Jenkins user experience by enabling teams to more easily adopt continuous delivery.<\/p>\n

CloudBees, Inc., the hub of enterprise Jenkins and DevOps, founded the Blue Ocean project and subsequently open sourced the software.<\/p>\n

With the official release of Blue Ocean, Jenkins now allows any member of a DevOps team to adopt continuous delivery without having the expert knowledge previously required to use Jenkins.<\/p>\n

Continuous delivery pipelines are inherently complex, making it difficult for team members \u2013 from developers to IT operations to management \u2013 to get a common understanding of the progression of software through the pipeline. Blue Ocean simplifies the development of software pipelines by allowing developers to create them with a visual pipeline editor and then visualise the process flow in an intuitive way, such that the whole organisation, not just developers, can understand it.<\/p>\n

Blue Ocean naturally fosters collaboration by providing a common view of the end-to-end pipeline that all team members can understand. Using Blue Ocean, team members gain a graphical overview of the entire pipeline, enabling them to quickly identify issues and then drill down to find the source of the problem.<\/p>\n

The implementation is underpinned by Pipeline as Code which enables the pipeline definition to be stored with the application code and infrastructure as code; allowing teams to reproduce previous configurations and processes easily when things go wrong.<\/p>\n

User experience features<\/h2>\n

CloudBees and the Jenkins community have collaborated to architect and develop the Blue Ocean user experience with key features such as:<\/p>\n