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Daily Life as a Jenkins Administrator

Introduction Hi, my name is Mark. I am a Jenkins administrator, and I want to share some of my daily experiences using and maintaining Jenkins. I hope you enjoy it. Environment and setup We have two Jenkins servers, production and quality. Both run on a commercially supported Linux distribution, normally on the latest LTS version, with around 200 plugins installed. Production runs more than 6,000 builds every...

Mark Schulz August 25, 2026
Plugin of the Month – July 2026: Disk Usage Simple

Welcome back to the Plugin of the Month series, where we highlight useful and impactful tools from the Jenkins ecosystem. Last month, we explored the Build Discarder Plugin, focusing on how a smart global policy can automatically clean up old builds and prevent hard disk waste. How do you locate the specific jobs or folders that are silently hoarding gigabytes without SSHing...

Stefan Spieker July 17, 2026
Plugin of the Month – June 2026: Build Discarder Plugin

Welcome back to the Plugin of the Month series, where we highlight useful and impactful plugins from the Jenkins ecosystem. For June 2026, we’re featuring the Build Discarder Plugin. Do you maintain a Jenkins server with thousands of active users? And even more builds? Spring cleaning? Or you just want to keep things neat and tidy? A global configuration for your build items...

Mark Schulz June 13, 2026