Automatically Creating Bamboo Elastic Images with Bellatrix
As a software company boasting 15 products and add-ons, as well as dozens of plugins for them, Atlassian builds a lot of code. I mean, a LOT of code. We’re also famous for eating our own dogfood, so of course we use Bamboo to orchestrate it all. Conducting the orchestra is a small and dedicated team […]
Bamboo 4 Has Arrived!
Between Mardi Gras, St. Patrick’s Day and unpredictable weather, March is one crazy month –and we at Atlassian are still deeply mad for distributed version control (DVCS)! As an expression of our mania, we put extra love for DVCS users into Bamboo 4 – Atlassian’s kick ass Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery server – which is now available for […]
Building in the Cloud Just Got Cheaper!
Great news for Bamboo users! If you haven’t already heard, Amazon has dropped the price of running EC2 instances. In other words, it just got cheaper to: run your Bamboo builds in the cloud instead of on your own iron tighten up feedback time on your builds by running more jobs in parallel execute builds […]
Get to Know Bamboo’s HungBuildKiller Plugin
What it lacks in snazzy naming, it makes up for in sheer brute-force functionality. It detects. It dispatches. It notifies. It is… the HungBuildKiller plugin, created by Atlassian build engineer Adrián Deccico (with help on the UI from Bamboo’s own Brydie McCoy)! Hung Up On You Hung builds happen for a myriad of reasons: race […]
Boost Your Build Automation with Artifact Sharing in Bamboo
If you’ve been following the recent posts about using Bamboo to set up a continuous delivery pipeline, you have probably noticed us talking about build artifacts. These are the products of the build itself: JARs, WARs, code coverage reports, test results, javadocs, rdocs… the list goes on n’ on. In this post, we’ll walk […]
Integration Domination with Jira and Bamboo
Did you know that Bamboo integrates with Jira? Ok, you probably knew that. Or could have guessed it. But do you know all the different ways these two kick-ass tools integrate with each other? Test your Jira and Bamboo knowledge by watching the Atlassian A/V Squad’s latest production! Follow a defect from discovery to destruction to […]
Continuous Delivery One Byte at a Time (or, “How to Eat an Elephant”): part 2
In part 1 of this mini-series, I introduced the concept of using manual Stages in Bamboo to set up a Plan that evolves as more and more of your build, test, and deploy processes become automated. When putting it into practice, there are some nuances to keep in mind, and “gotchas” to avoid. In […]
Continuous Deploy One Byte at a Time (or, “How to Eat an Elephant”): part 1
We’ve been talking about continuous deployment here on the Atlassian Dev Tools blog. Many of you are already sold on the idea, and some of you are putting it into practice already. But others may be reading these posts thinking “Continuous deployment sounds wonderful, but my hurdles are so many and so high, I wouldn’t even know […]