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Long-form, hands-on writing about running Jenkins: build triggers, API tokens, pipeline visualisation, and the parts of the job the official docs skip.

Illustration of a Jenkins pipeline visualisation, with the deprecated Blue Ocean view giving way to its replacements

Blue Ocean is dead — what to use instead

As of July 2026 Blue Ocean receives no further security fixes or functionality updates. Here is what the Jenkins project recommends instead, and how to migrate off it without breaking your links.

10 min read
Illustration contrasting Jenkins polling a Git server on a timer with the Git server pushing a webhook the moment a commit lands

Stop polling: move Jenkins from pollSCM to webhooks

pollSCM asks your Git server "anything new?" on a timer. Webhooks let the Git server answer the moment there is. Here is how to migrate, and when polling is still the right call.

9 min read
Illustration of a Jenkins API token being created, stored as a secret, and revoked

Jenkins API tokens: create, scope, rotate, and revoke

How Jenkins API tokens differ from passwords, how to create one, what they can and cannot be scoped to, and how to store and rotate them without leaking your CI server.

9 min read

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