Repeatability is an intuitive aspect of daily life. If you throw a ball up, it comes down. If you throw it up twenty times, the same thing will happen, up and then down twenty times. When repeatability doesn’t occur and it’s supposed to, we get anxious. ...
CloudBees SDA Analytics has more power than you think One of the main features of CloudBees SDA is CloudBees Analytics, powered by ElasticSearch. It’s a powerful tool for displaying continuous integration data and there are loads of useful metrics available from...
Credentials Are Tough By Design Credentials in Cloudbees SDA are admittedly a little tricky to get to. This is by design. If it were any easier, it could be a potential security risk. There is really just one way to use credentials in code, and it’s a multi-step...
Let's Define It Self service catalog is a powerful tool that allows non-technical people to run reports, and technical people to accelerate setup and configuration. Why Should I Use The Self Service Catalog? The self service catalog creates an easy to use UI for...
Have you ever sent out an email with a bunch of important questions and received a reply that began with "my answers are in blue". Have you then found yourself combing through your large email searching for those answers only to discover that your email provider...
This is the silent video which ran at the Electric Cloud Sparks 2013 conference. It demonstrates several GWT-based Electric Commander Dashboards developed for our customers. SPK and Associates are a CloudBees Elevate Partner. Contact Us Today to build/customize a...
Electric Cloud (now known as CloudBees CD) has released an open-source tool called ec-testing for unit testing Electric Commander procedures. In this video below, David Hubbell demonstrates how to download the tool, set it up, and run example test cases....
Electric Commander, now known as CloudBees CD, allows you to set up an alternate location for your plugins directory. This is a two step process and it's easy to forget the second step. If the second step is not done, the system can appear to still be functioning...
Why are dashboards important? In a nutshell, they allow you to visually present information in a way that is meaningful to the reader. They allow the reader to immediately see trends, and more importantly, quickly make decisions or change behavior in order get better...
Video Transcript: Electric Command (now known as CloudBees CD) is amazing tool for streamlining and automating your build, test, and deploy software development cycle. But it's usefulness goes even further out-of-the-box. Commander generates a large pool of data...
Video Transcript: SPK is the leading provider of custom dashboards and users interfaces for Electric Commander (now part of CloudBees CD). One of our most frequent requested customizations is for input screens featuring dynamically populated and responsive menu...
The Electric Commander homepage allows you to bookmark links and job configurations for easy access. It’s easy to add one or two, but if you have a lot of links and you want to share them with other users so that they have the same links as well, its a lot of work to...
