2025 Year in Review
CloudBees’ 2025 Year in Review announces its new Unify platform, an AI‑enhanced control layer that sits on top of existing CI/CD tools, and highlights awards and survey results.
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CloudBees Unify Wins Gold in the 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, DevSecOps
CloudBees Unify was announced as the Gold winner in the DevSecOps category of the 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards. The post positions Unify as a control‑plane that centralises policy and AI‑aware guardrails, but provides no technical details, code, or measured results.
Codeshipcloudbees.com2 minreleaseBee Giving: Strengthening Our Culture by Serving Our Communities
CloudBees runs a volunteer program called BeeGiving, giving each employee two paid days a year to volunteer. The article describes a bike‑building activity at the company’s sales kickoff, tying community service to culture and employee engagement.
Codeshipcloudbees.com4 minHow to Deploy Wildcard SSL Certificates Using Let's Encrypt
Step‑by‑step tutorial for obtaining a Let’s Encrypt wildcard certificate via DNS‑01 challenge and wiring it into an NGINX server block on Ubuntu 16.04.
Codeshipcloudbees.com4 minIntroducing the DevOps Agent Kit
The DevOps Agent Kit is an Apache‑2.0 open‑source starter kit that lets you plug an LLM‑based coding assistant into your existing CI/CD, security, and feature‑flag tooling via CloudBees Unify. It ships with seven read‑only example skills, enforces RBAC and audit trails, and normalises data from up to 63 tools so the agent can answer a single “are we good to ship?” question with verifiable evidenc…
Codeshipcloudbees.com5 minThe Credentials API in Jenkins
The post explains the motivation behind Jenkins' Credentials API, recounts early design mistakes (duplicated username/password types, over‑reliance on the type system), introduces the “Oracles of Identity” concept, and shows how credential domains let users declaratively bind credentials to the right services.
Codeshipcloudbees.com12 minJenkins Configuration as Code: Documentation
Jenkins Configuration as Code (JCasC) lets you define the Jenkins controller via declarative YAML that mirrors the UI model. The plugin can generate exhaustive documentation and a JSON schema for the YAML, enabling IDE assistance. It also offers a REST API to dry‑run configs before applying them. The post links to related series entries and community resources.
Codeshipcloudbees.com2 minHealth Check-up for Your Jenkins
Kohsuke Kawaguchi outlines a few low‑effort ways to keep a Jenkins instance healthy: use jconsole to watch old‑gen heap usage, the Monitoring plugin (or Nagios) to record HTTP latency and queue length, inspect thread dumps for slow pages, and review the built‑in load chart to spot agent under‑/over‑utilisation.
Codeshipcloudbees.com3 minCloudBees CI Disaster Recovery(DR) proof of concept using Velero
The post describes a proof‑of‑concept DR setup for CloudBees CI on EKS using Velero with custom patches for cross‑region EBS snapshot replication, achieving 15‑minute RPO and sub‑hour RTO. It also outlines the required backup of $JENKINS_HOME, metadata, DNS switch, and the experimental nature of the patches.
Codeshipcloudbees.com12 minMakefile performance: built-in rules
GNU Make scans every built‑in implicit rule for each target, adding unnecessary overhead. Using the -r (or --no-builtin-rules) flag disables this scanning and can speed up large or no‑op builds by up to ~30%.
Codeshipcloudbees.com4 minA Note from CloudBees’ New CEO
CEO Moritz Plassnig’s note is a high‑level, marketing‑focused announcement about CloudBees’ vision for AI‑augmented software delivery. It contains no technical details, code, or concrete product changes—just broad statements about flexibility, governance, and future “industrialization” of development.
Codeshipcloudbees.com3 minWhen red doesn’t mean broken, your pipeline stops meaning anything
CloudBees Smart Tests adds a “High‑failure‑rate tests” dashboard and a “Quarantine” mode that lets flaky tests keep running but no longer block the pipeline, with manual or automatic thresholds and automatic recovery when failure rates drop.
Codeshipcloudbees.com6 minInfusing our brand with our unique DevOps perspective
CloudBees announced a rebrand, including a new logo, typeface, and color palette, to reflect its evolution from an Enterprise Jenkins provider to a strategic cloud transformation partner. The rebrand aims to align with their updated vision, mission, and values, emphasizing flexibility and a "bees-eye view" of software development.
Codeshipcloudbees.com5 minBest GitLab Alternatives for Enterprise Teams (2026)
The article is a vendor‑authored marketing piece that lists criteria for picking a GitLab alternative and then promotes CloudBees Unify as a cross‑tool governance layer, with brief mentions of other tools (GitHub, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Harness, CircleCI). It contains a few quoted survey percentages but no technical deep‑dive, code, architecture diagrams, or independent evaluation.
Codeshipcloudbees.com10 minCloudBees vs Harness: Why Migration Isn't the Fix
The article argues that Harness’s “free migration” offer hides significant downstream costs (training, pipeline rebuilds, compliance recertification) and that even after migration you still lack unified governance across heterogeneous CI/CD tools. CloudBees positions its Unify control plane as a tool‑agnostic layer that adds visibility, continuous governance, AI‑driven test selection, and hybrid…
Codeshipcloudbees.com5 minCloudBees Smart Tests Helps Leading Software Company Double Release Velocity by Saving 40K Testing Hours in One Year
The article compares several test‑intelligence products, highlighting CloudBees Smart Tests as a CI‑agnostic solution that allegedly saved a company 40 K testing hours and doubled release velocity. It also outlines the trade‑offs of coverage‑based, ML‑driven, and flaky‑test‑focused tools.
Codeshipcloudbees.com10 minThe CARE score: Measuring your organization's AI readiness
CloudBees’ CARE Score is a proprietary 0‑100 rubric across six AI‑governance dimensions (cost visibility, budget predictability, productivity measurement, governance maturity, pipeline visibility, token governance). The post shows a gap between leaders’ self‑rated confidence (≈86‑92%) and operational reality (e.g., only ~30% can attribute AI spend to outcomes, ~27% enforce token limits). It offer…
Codeshipcloudbees.com8 minAgentic DevOps World 2026: Key Takeaways
Enterprise AI code generation is outpacing governance: 92% of leaders feel confident but 81% see more production issues; post‑generation stages (review, testing, deployment) are now the bottleneck. Successful adoption requires up‑skilling, end‑to‑end metrics, and tooling (e.g., CloudBees DevOps Agent Kit, PR‑auto‑approval agents).
Codeshipcloudbees.com8 minOpenClaw Is a Preview of Why Governance Matters More Than Ever
Autonomous AI agents like OpenClaw are shifting software development from AI-assisted to AI-executed, capable of committing code and orchestrating deployments without human approval. This necessitates robust governance to manage increased risks in security, compliance, and accountability, as traditional DevOps assumptions no longer hold.
Codeshipcloudbees.com6 minThe Unify Buzz Intensifies
CloudBees announces its Unify platform extensions, including a GitHub Actions integration and an MCP Server that adds AI‑aware context to pipelines. The post is a marketing overview with upcoming events and UI change notices.
Codeshipcloudbees.com3 minThe 2026 State of Code Abundance Report: Exposing the Enterprise AI Readiness Gap
A report highlights a significant gap between enterprise confidence in AI-generated code and operational reality, with 81% of leaders reporting increased production issues despite high readiness scores. This "code abundance" means code is generated faster than organizations can effectively test, govern, and manage it, leading to challenges in cost attribution and governance.
Codeshipcloudbees.com5 minRevolutionize Your Jenkins Environment with Horizontal Scalability and High Availability
The post announces CloudBees CI’s new High Availability mode, which splits a Jenkins controller into multiple replicas that are load‑balanced and synchronized via Hazelcast. It claims automatic scaling, fault tolerance, and seamless rolling restarts, but provides no implementation details, metrics, or code.
Codeshipcloudbees.com4 minAgentic AI: Beyond the Hype
The article is a marketing overview of CloudBees' agentic AI push, highlighting a webinar, the “Three H’s” governance framework, and the new MCP Server AI integration now on AWS Marketplace. It contains no technical deep‑dive or implementation specifics for engineers.
Codeshipcloudbees.com2 minLet The Buzz Begin…Introducing CloudBees Unify
CloudBees announced Unify, a marketed unified DevOps platform that adds AI‑driven test selection, GitHub Actions integration, and continuous security scanning, promising faster, more secure software delivery for enterprises.
Codeshipcloudbees.com3 minCloudBees Appoints Philippe Van Hove as Chief Revenue Officer to Accelerate Growth as Company Scales its AI-powered DevOps Solution
CloudBees announced Philippe Van Hove as its new Chief Revenue Officer. He brings 25 years of SaaS go‑to‑market experience and will lead scaling of the AI‑forward CloudBees Unify solution.
Codeshipcloudbees.com1 minCloudBees Named to Inc’s 2025 Best Workplaces
CloudBees announced it was named to Inc.’s 2025 Best Workplaces list, framing the award as validation of its internal culture and values.
Codeshipcloudbees.com1 minUsing Docker Compose for NodeJS Development
This tutorial demonstrates how to set up a Node.js application with a PostgreSQL database using Docker Compose for local development. It covers creating a Dockerfile for the Node.js app and defining both services in a docker-compose.yml file, including volume mounts and environment variables.
Codeshipcloudbees.com9 minUsing Docker Compose for PHP Development
This tutorial demonstrates how to set up a PHP/Laravel/PostgreSQL development environment using Docker and Docker Compose. It covers creating a Dockerfile for the PHP application and defining services for NGINX, the PHP app, and PostgreSQL in a docker-compose.yml file.
Codeshipcloudbees.com10 minMerge Conflict: Everything You Need to Know
This article explains what Git merge conflicts are, why they occur when merging different changes to the same file locations, and how they manifest differently in standard merges versus rebases. It provides a strategy for resolving rebase conflicts in feature branches before merging them into a main branch.
Codeshipcloudbees.com5 minIs CMMI Dead Yet? If Not, Can It Be?
This article argues that CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration) is an outdated and ineffective methodology for software development. It contends that CMMI's focus on institutionalized process devalues individual talent, stifles innovation, and has failed to prove its worth in the broader technology space.
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