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The backend of my latest project consists of several microservices written in Go. Each service is built in Jenkins and then deployed to the Openshift Cloud Platform. The one problem we have is that this Jenkins is not allowed to communicate with servers outside of the companie’s network.
Continue readingTo create a link between your Git commits and their Jira issue, developers must include the issue key into their commit comment. Often, developers forget to add the issue key to their commits. Instead, we use a Git commit hook to prefill the commit message with the issue key automatically.
Continue readingIn a recent project, we set up a CI/CD pipeline with Bitbucket, Jenkins, and Openshift. Releases of the frontend and microservices should only be done manually, so we decided to implement a Jenkins job where the developer selects the service and its version to be released in Openshift.
Continue readingSince Go 1.11, modules are the official way of managing dependencies in Go. The transition is not as smooth as it should be as it is in a very early stage. The feature is planned to be finalized with Go 1.14.
Continue readingWhen working with several repositories and feature branches, it can get tedious to clean-up merged and removed branches by hand. A small snippet can do the job for us automatically.
Continue readingIn 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.
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