Ontrack 2.17 [https://github.com/nemerosa/ontrack/releases/tag/2.17.1] is now released and contains the following new features: * increased support for metrics [https://github.com/nemerosa/ontrack/wiki/Monitoring], including support for Grafana, Graphite & InfluxDB - support for other metrics will be enriched in the

Ontrack 2.16 [https://github.com/nemerosa/ontrack/releases/tag/2.16.0] is now released and contains the following new features: * Subversion: support for build names [https://github.com/nemerosa/ontrack/wiki/Working-with-Subversion] which contain the revision, like 1.2.1-123456 The complete detail of features, enhancements and fixes

Ontrack 2.15 [https://github.com/nemerosa/ontrack/releases/tag/2.15.0] is now released and contains the following new features: * A project can be configured to disable and even delete stale branches [https://github.com/nemerosa/ontrack/wiki/Managing-the-branches] * Make the model available in the DSL [https://github.

Ontrack 2.14 [https://github.com/nemerosa/ontrack/releases/tag/2.14.0] is now released and contains many new features and improvements. * Support of groups for the LDAP authentication [https://github.com/nemerosa/ontrack/wiki/LDAP-setup], allowing to map some LDAP groups to Ontrack groups * Support for Atlassian Stash

It is possible to enable SSL when running a Spring Boot application, without having to rely on a proxy like Nginx. However, the Spring Boot documentation on this subject [http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/#howto-configure-ssl] is a bit scarce and I wanted to document the whole

Ontrack 2.13 [https://github.com/nemerosa/ontrack/releases/tag/2.13.9] is now released, with the following content: * Subversion configurations are now checked when created * Complete refactoring of the Ontrack delivery and Docker image [https://github.com/nemerosa/ontrack/wiki/Installing-using-Docker] is available The complete detail of features,

Ontrack 2.12.3 [https://github.com/nemerosa/ontrack/releases/tag/2.12.3] is now released, with the following content: * Build links [https://github.com/nemerosa/ontrack/wiki/Build-links-property] - builds can be linked to other builds and searches can be done based on this information * Download files [https:

It is possible to enable SSL when running a Spring Boot application, without having to rely on a proxy like Nginx. However, the Spring Boot documentation on this subject [http://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/#howto-configure-ssl] is a bit scarce and I wanted to document the whole

Publishing in Maven Central repository has gotten simpler and simpler, especially when using Gradle [http://gradle.org]. The official documentation [http://central.sonatype.org/pages/gradle.html] is complete enough but I wanted to put things together in order to allow for a quick start. > The two first steps,

Ontrack 2.11.0 [https://github.com/nemerosa/ontrack/releases/tag/2.11.0] is now released, with the following content: * Message properties [https://github.com/nemerosa/ontrack/wiki/Message-property] available for all entities * Meta information properties [https://github.com/nemerosa/ontrack/wiki/Meta-information-property] available for all entities, allowing you

Ontrack 2.10.0 [https://github.com/nemerosa/ontrack/releases/tag/2.10.0] is now released, with the following content: * Auto promotion [https://github.com/nemerosa/ontrack/wiki/Auto-promotion] of builds after they have been validated * Getting the change log [https://github.com/nemerosa/ontrack/wiki/DSL-Change-log] using the

Ontrack 2.9.0 [https://github.com/nemerosa/ontrack/releases/tag/2.9.0] is now released, with the following content: * Auto creation of validation stamps [https://github.com/nemerosa/ontrack/wiki/Auto-creation-of-validation-stamps] from a list of predefined validation stamps For the whole detail of features, enhancements and fixes, have

Ontrack 2.7.0 [https://github.com/nemerosa/ontrack/releases/tag/2.7.0] is now released, with the following content: * Branches can now be linked to a template * Manual synchronisation of a branch against its template is now possible * The DSL allows to set the time and creator for

Ontrack 2.6.0 [https://github.com/nemerosa/ontrack/releases/tag/2.6.0] is now released, with the following content: * Validation stamp filter - when your number of validation stamps for a branch is too big, you can select the ones you want to keep displaying * On the file

Ontrack 2.5.0 [https://github.com/nemerosa/ontrack/releases/tag/2.5.0] is now released, with the following content: * Possibility to have filters on the file changes in the SCM change logs (SVN and Git). Those filters can be saved and shared within the same project. * Creation of

Ontrack 2.4.1 [https://github.com/nemerosa/ontrack/releases/tag/2.4.1] is now released, for a few days already, with the following content: * Increasing the scope of the DSL: configurations, properties, using config instead of properties, disconnection of branches from their template * Displaying the build pattern for

Ontrack 2.3.3 [https://github.com/nemerosa/ontrack/releases/tag/2.3.3] is now released, with the following content: * Permission to synchronise a branch template is now granted to the controllers in order to ease automation * Improvment on the project build search screen (reset button, message when no

In a previous article [https://nemerosa.ghost.io/2014/11/05/executable-acceptance-tests-using-spring-boot/], I have described how you could make your acceptance tests being delivered as an executable, so they can be executed at any time in your deployment pipeline. Here, I will focus on the selection and configuration of tests

Whatever the Git workflow you're using, it is likely that you have to deal with several or many branches, like features, fixes or releases, and each of this branch must be validated using a continuous integration or deployment pipeline, that might be different according to the nature of

Ontrack 2.2.0 [https://github.com/nemerosa/ontrack/releases/tag/2.2.0] is now released, with the following content: * Search for builds in projects based on branch, name, promotion and validation * Ontrack DSL improvements -see the documentation [https://github.com/nemerosa/ontrack/wiki/DSL] for more information. * Ontrack

Ontrack 2.1.0 [https://github.com/nemerosa/ontrack/releases/tag/2.1.0] is now released, with the following content: * Ontrack DSL - you can now access and customize Ontrack using a DSL written in Groovy. See the documentation [https://github.com/nemerosa/ontrack/wiki/DSL] for more information.

In some contexts, it might very useful to disable the SSL checks when connecting to https using Java. In my case, I was creating a temporary test server using Docker, where the proxy in front of my application was an Nginx with a self signed certificate. Of course, when connecting

In a continuous delivery context, you might want to reuse your acceptance tests from end to end: * to run them locally in a developer's environment, * in your continuous integration environment while building your application, * against a test server, * against even the production environment. In order to achieve this,

If you want to extract URL information from a link using Javascript, like the host name or the path information, it is as easy as: var link = ...; // Any URL var a = document.createElement('a'); a.href = link; a.pathname; // The path portion a.host; // The host ... The trick

Ontrack 2.0.0-RC was just released. Main new features: * branch templating [https://github.com/nemerosa/ontrack/wiki/Branch-templating] * possibility to disable projects and branches * build filters can be shared for a branch * easier update of a branch and all its componentsThe complete list of features is available athttps://github.