Welcome to Part 2 of an ongoing series on the gitflow-helper-maven-plugin, and how to leverage it to simplify your CI configuration, artifact management, and deployment solution. Once again I’m going to be terse, and try to provide you with a bare-bones, step by step recipe to get going quickly with Jenkins, Bitbucket Server (Formerly Stash), and Nexus OSS. Part 1 of this series contained the introduction of the gitflow-helper-maven-plugin as a means of teaching Maven how to behave for building… [continue]
Gitflow, Maven, and CI Done Right: Part 1 – Teaching Maven New Tricks
Hi, I’m Bryan. This is my first blog post for E-g. I wanted it to be memorable. I wanted it to be epic. I wanted it to be informative. I wanted to convey how much time I’ve spent over the years looking for an elegant and functional method of creating a single Jenkins CI build job for a gitflow managed Maven project that would do the right thing for each environment without any of the technical tradeoffs I consider unsavory…. [continue]