DevOps World | Jenkins World 2018

"White knuckle releases" have plagued the NPR Digital Media teams for years. Building out a solid, well-rehearsed system based on Jenkins jobs did the trick, initially. While improving on that path, lessons have been learned, release-day alarms have been sounded and systems have been forced into "DevOps-ification." Is your team small, but your builds large? Is there at least one monolith amongst your newer microservices that tends to be the beast lurking in the closet when it comes to release? For each step forward in checking Jenkins logic into a codebase do you seem to fall a step backward in your team understanding of Jenkins? NPR Digital Media is no different and is here to help!