Pipeline: Best Practices References

Issue

This article has a list of best practices links for Pipeline code.

Environment

References

The recommended reference materials on this subject are:

Pipeline best practices (cloudbees.com)
Pipeline Best Practices (jenkins.io)

Articles and Presentations

The following are blog posts about pipeline best practices:

Best Practices for Scalable Pipeline Code published on February 1st 2017 by Sam Van Oort
Top 10 Best Practices for Jenkins Pipeline Plugin published on June 27th 2016 by Andy Pemberton

Jenkins World presentations:

Pipelines At Scale: How Big, How Fast, How Many presented in 2017 by Sam Van Oort (click here for the video)
Declarative Pipelines In Jenkins presented in 2017 by Andrew Bayer and Bobby Sandell (click here for the video)
JenkinsPipelineUnit: Test your Continuous Delivery Pipeline presented in 2017 by Ozan Günalp and Emmanuel Quincerot (click here for the video)

Additional resources

<JENKINS_URL>/pipeline-syntax contains the documentation that applies specifically to the instance.
Pipeline Utility Steps: Useful Goodies For Parsing Configs, Maven POMs, etc

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