{"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
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
CloudBees and the Jenkins community have collaborated to architect and develop the Blue Ocean user experience with key features such as:<\/p>\n
“The Blue Ocean project has had incredibly positive feedback from the community since its inception. It brought a breath of fresh air to the working horse of developers everywhere that is Jenkins,\u201d said Kohsuke Kawaguchi, Jenkins Founder and CTO at CloudBees. \u201cThe new and very modern and intuitive UX makes Jenkins more approachable and continues to enhance the power and usability of Jenkins.”<\/p>\n
Jenkins is the most popular automation server in use today. With continued annual growth in active Jenkins installations of about 30%, the Jenkins community now has 533,839 active nodes, with more than 11 million jobs defined in Jenkins on them.<\/p>\n
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