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13. July 2019 Matthias

Jenkins Plugin With Optional Input Parameters

In a previous post, the Jenkins Stapler plugin was used to implement a plugin to be used with freestyle and pipeline jobs. In this example, all plugin parameters had to be defined in the pipeline script. However, sometimes it would be more convenient to make some plugin parameters optional.

8. March 2019 Matthias

Deploying Grafana to Openshift With Terraform

Infrastructure as code increases productivity and transparency. By storing the architecture configuration in version control, changes can be compared to the previous state, and the history gets visible and traceable. Terraform is an open source command line tool which codifies APIs into declarative configuration files. In this tutorial, Terraform is

4. March 2019 Matthias

Provision Openshift Architecture with Terraform

27. February 2019 Matthias

Compile and Run Golang Executable with Docker

In this tutorial, I guide you through the process of writing a Dockerfile which compiles and runs a Golang application packaged into a Docker image. Thereby, I use a multi-stage setup, removing the need for seperate Dockerfiles for compilation and execution.

25. February 2019 Matthias

CSV to GPX Converter for geocaching.com

You have a file with final coordinates for some mysteries. Editing every geocache coordinate manually takes way too long. Therefore, I wrote a small application which converts a csv to a gpx file, and a user guide on how to automatically upload the gpx file to geocaching.com. The provided GSAK

15. February 2019 Matthias

Jenkins Plugin as build step and pipeline compatible

If you are writing a Jenkins plugin and you want it to run as a build step and to work smoothly with pipelines, the following article shows you how to do it. I will show how I migrated a build step plugin to also work as pipeline plugin.