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How to start Jenkins in maintenance mode

Thu, 19 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

From time to time we need to upgrade our Jenkins installation. Usually this requires two restarts due to the fact that first Jenkins core needs to be updated and later on the huge amount of plugins. Of course you can update the plugins first and then core, but more often than not some plugins need a newer core version and therefore you don’t get the latest updates without upgrading core first.

CLI wizardry - counting file sizes with find and du

Mon, 29 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

From time to time one needs to count the size of all files matching a certain pattern.

MS SQL on Linux

Sun, 05 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This is just a quick post (merely to have something for myself to remember) on how to get MS SQL running on Linux.
As you might have noticed, there is a developer version of the next MS SQL server available (for now called “vNext Community Preview”) which is also available on Linux and even as a Docker container.

Shutdown Jenkins safely

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

A few weeks ago I had to prepare our Jenkins for an internal cloud update. The update would take place over the weekend, so it had to be down on Saturday, 8 a.m. I didn’t want to wait until everyone was finished on Friday evening, so I had a look for an automatic shutdown procedure.