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Summer is over and the conference season is back! I had a great summer, and I hope everyone else did as well.

Most of my time was spent at home building some cool demos and catching up on the latest technologies and offerings that Microsoft and our partners have developed for the cloud. Now it’s time to take it on the road again!

My first stop next week will be DevOps World | Jenkins World September 16–19, 2018 in San Francisco. With the recent announcement of Azure DevOps , we have a lot of exciting options for integrating your Jenkins CI/CD pipelines with the cloud. We’ll be demonstrating a few of them at our booth, and you can also attend my workshop, and check out sessions by my fellow Microsoft Cloud Developer Advocate Jessica Dean and myself!.

Catch our Sessions!

Here’s a rundown of the sessions, by day:

Monday, September 17

Workshop: Get up and running with Jenkins on Azure
 1:00pm — 5:00pm Brian Benz

The Azure marketplace has several Jenkins offerings from CloudBees, Kubernetes, Docker, Bitnami and others to help you spin up Azure Jenkins instances. We will introduce a set of plugins that will enable seamless deployments to Azure containers, storage repositories, VMs and other cloud resources from your Jenkins instance. Workshop steps will take you through using Jenkins on VMs, Kubernetes and App Services, and how to integrate with other cloud services for testing and deployment. At the end of this workshop you will be able to quickly set up Jenkins in the cloud for continuous integration, deployment and delivery scenarios.

Tuesday, September 18

Session: Developing and Delivering Jenkins in the cloud
 11:15am — 12:00pm Brian Benz with Olivier Vernin, CloudBees

In this session, we’ll discuss the real-life implementation of Jenkins’ development and delivery infrastructure in the cloud as it has evolved from a mix of platforms to Microsoft Azure. Expect a frank discussion of how issues that were encountered along the way were overcome, how the architecture has evolved, and what’s on the roadmap. We’ll share important tips and tricks for implementing your own Jenkins infrastructure on any cloud, based on Jenkins’ own experience with their implementation.

Session: Microsoft, Linux, Open Source, Cloud + DevOps
 2:30pm — 3:15pm Jessica Dean

During the past year, Microsoft has made significant contributions to the open source community. We have open sourced tools such as Visual Studio Code, PowerShell Core, .NET Core and even added support for Bash on Windows 10. We also contribute upstream to projects like Kubernetes, Helm, Draft and Brigade. Draft is a tool that makes Kubernetes easier to use for developers. In this session, I will teach you how you can use these open source tools in your dev and production environments. You’ll be enabled to implement DevOps best practices, thereby giving you the tools necessary to become a DevOps superhero!

Wednesday, September 19

Session: Top ways to deploy and use Jenkins in the Cloud
 1:30pm — 2:15pm Brian Benz

In this session, I’ll share best practices and practical architectural patterns for building a Jenkins infrastructure that is secure, robust and scales well. We’ll use a demo app that delivers code to, and runs on, Linux Virtual Machines and containers. I’ll also discuss helpful plugins and cloud services that can be integrated into app infrastructures to offer more value. By the end of the session, you should have a good overview of what a powerful Jenkins cloud architecture needs to function and how that architecture can be adapted for the most common app delivery scenarios.

See you there!

Even if you can’t make any of these sessions, stop by and say hi at our booth! If you’re using Jenkins on Azure, we’d also like to hear your experience and perspective.

See you in San Francisco!

-BB