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Viktor Farcic
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Viktor Farcic is a senior consultant at CloudBees, a member of the Docker Captains group, and an author. He codes using a plethora of languages starting with Pascal (yes, he is old), Basic (before it got the Visual prefix), ASP (before it got the .NET suffix), C, C++, Perl, Python, ASP.NET, Visual Basic, C#, JavaScript, Java, Scala, and so on. He never worked with Fortran. His current favorite is Go. Viktor's big passions are Microservices, Continuous Deployment, and Test-Driven Development (TDD). He often speaks at community gatherings and conferences. Viktor wrote Test-Driven Java Development by Packt Publishing, and The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit. His random thoughts and tutorials can be found in his blog—Technology Conversations
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Switching from Scripted to Declarative Pipeline

"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, a group of Jenkins contributors decided to reinvent the way Jenkins jobs are defined and how they operate." (A couple of years in software terms is a lot, and Jenkins contributors are indeed spread throughout the galaxy).

The new type of jobs became known as Jenkins pipeline. It was received well by the community, and the adoption started almost instantly. Everything was excellent, and the benefits of using Pipeline compared to FreeStyle jobs were evident from the start. However, it wasn't easy for everyone to adopt Pipeline. Those who were used to scripting, and especially those familiar with Groovy, had no difficulties to switch. But, many used Jenkins without being coders. They did not find Pipeline to be as easy as we thought it would be.

While I do believe that there...

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Viktor Farcic is a senior consultant at CloudBees, a member of the Docker Captains group, and an author. He codes using a plethora of languages starting with Pascal (yes, he is old), Basic (before it got the Visual prefix), ASP (before it got the .NET suffix), C, C++, Perl, Python, ASP.NET, Visual Basic, C#, JavaScript, Java, Scala, and so on. He never worked with Fortran. His current favorite is Go. Viktor's big passions are Microservices, Continuous Deployment, and Test-Driven Development (TDD). He often speaks at community gatherings and conferences. Viktor wrote Test-Driven Java Development by Packt Publishing, and The DevOps 2.0 Toolkit. His random thoughts and tutorials can be found in his blog—Technology Conversations
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