Mark Rekveld, FounderMark Rekveld, a coding enthusiast, witnessed these exact inefficiencies when building applications on Jenkins and managing them on Jira. He sought to build a solution that would integrate Jenkins with Jira in the simplest way possible, along with automatically populating the relevant bugs and issues on Jira’s project management dashboard. After several iterations, he finally arrived at his envisioned ‘marvellous solution’ and made it available under the brand name, Marvelution. Today, Marvelution’s Jenkins integration for Jira is making life easier for countless project managers and software developers.
“Our integration automatically synchronises Jenkins CI/ CD pipelines with Jira’s project management dashboard, allowing developers to easily view and verify the status of their latest builds before testing and deploying the applications,” says Mark Rekveld, founder of Marvelution.
Facilitating Seamless Build Visualisation and Issue Resolution
Marvelution’s Jenkins integration for Jira borne from first-hand development challenges faced by Mark is imparted with all the relevant functionalities needed to simplify project management. The integration allows automated data retrieval for Jenkins-orchestrated pipelines that are running multiple unit tests, static code analyses, integrations, and performance tests in the systems development lifecycle (SDLC). If there is a failure in one of the builds, the integration’s synchronisation engine processes the build information and automatically populates the status details on Jira’s issue index. The view issue screen of the integration enables users to have a single snapshot for all builds that are related to an issue, with links to other identified builds, issues, and projects.
This issue visualisation against the exact builds or versions in Jira enables project managers and developers to check the logs and troubleshoot the errors faster.
The automation engine takes the Marvelution integration solution’s capabilities a notch higher. “As and when an issue occurs, the automation engine internally matches the events with the information procured by the synchronisation engine from Jenkins, before raising the tickets for relevant teams in Jira,” says Mark.
This is especially useful for resolving issues in the backup builds, which are often overlooked. The integration can be configured by administrators to trigger the relevant builds whenever a team starts working on a ticket. While developers can choose to complete individual jobs, the integration also offers the flexibility of triggering all related builds simultaneously. This automated triggering eliminates unnecessary breaks between the CI/CD cycles, significantly accelerating the development process.
As an added benefit, the audit trail of build issues on Jira facilitates seamless alignment with the compliance requirements before the software or application reaches the customer.
“Our integration automatically synchronises Jenkins CI/CD pipelines with Jira’s project management dashboard, allowing developers to easily view and verify the status of their latest builds before testing and deploying the applications”
Marvelution’s integration, by streamlining and automating most of the repetitive and manual tasks between Jenkins and Jira, enables project managers and developers to focus more on improving their software applications and products.
As Simple as Installing an App
Marvelution’s Jenkins integration for Jira is no different than downloading and installing any other app. The integration solution is available on the Atlassian Marketplace as a free trial, which the developers can try before buying the full version license.
During installation, the users first install the ‘Jira integration for Jenkins’ on the Jenkins system and then deploy the ‘Jenkins integration for Jira.’ Once the two systems are connected, the integration solution begins synchronising the jobs on Jenkins and linking them to the issues raised on Jira.
The company’s integration supports Jira in both cloud and data centres.In the case of Jira being on the cloud, then Marvelution hosts the integration solution in its own cloud server, allowing developers to directly couple it to Jira without having to download a separate installation file.
The automation engine takes the Marvelution integration solution’s capabilities a notch higher. “As and when an issue occurs, the automation engine internally matches the events with the information procured by the synchronisation engine from Jenkins, before raising the tickets for relevant teams in Jira,” says Mark.
This is especially useful for resolving issues in the backup builds, which are often overlooked. The integration can be configured by administrators to trigger the relevant builds whenever a team starts working on a ticket. While developers can choose to complete individual jobs, the integration also offers the flexibility of triggering all related builds simultaneously. This automated triggering eliminates unnecessary breaks between the CI/CD cycles, significantly accelerating the development process.
As an added benefit, the audit trail of build issues on Jira facilitates seamless alignment with the compliance requirements before the software or application reaches the customer.
“Our integration automatically synchronises Jenkins CI/CD pipelines with Jira’s project management dashboard, allowing developers to easily view and verify the status of their latest builds before testing and deploying the applications”
Marvelution’s integration, by streamlining and automating most of the repetitive and manual tasks between Jenkins and Jira, enables project managers and developers to focus more on improving their software applications and products.
As Simple as Installing an App
Marvelution’s Jenkins integration for Jira is no different than downloading and installing any other app. The integration solution is available on the Atlassian Marketplace as a free trial, which the developers can try before buying the full version license.
During installation, the users first install the ‘Jira integration for Jenkins’ on the Jenkins system and then deploy the ‘Jenkins integration for Jira.’ Once the two systems are connected, the integration solution begins synchronising the jobs on Jenkins and linking them to the issues raised on Jira.
The company’s integration supports Jira in both cloud and data centres.In the case of Jira being on the cloud, then Marvelution hosts the integration solution in its own cloud server, allowing developers to directly couple it to Jira without having to download a separate installation file.
Even when the developers run into hurdles when using the integration, Mark personally handles the support requests and helps clients troubleshoot the bugs quickly and effectively. Marvelution’s clients can avail either self-service/open source or licenced support. The company offers the required resources, including product documentation for clients that choose self-help, and if needed, assistance from the open source community. With the licensed support from Marvelution, they can directly call Mark himself and get assistance through screen sharing.
In addition, if the integration needs to be personalised for particular projects, Mark builds customised features for the specific client. These features, based on their effectiveness, are then made available to other clients as well.
Towards the Future of Software Development
Today, software developers are increasingly leveraging Marvelution’s Jenkins integration for Jira and achieving unprecedented levels of efficiency in the development processes.
Attesting to this is the testimony by Kevin Ultsh, systems administrator, Networks GlobeTax, who says, “This amazing JIRA add-on allows us to easily view and plan releases and confirm that everything is done in a timely matter without any roadblocks. Our project management team loves that they can easily see the latest builds along with their statuses, which helps us track if work has been successfully deployed to an environment.”
As more organisations move towards the cloud, Marvelution will continue optimising the features of its Jenkins integration for Jira and make it more suitable for the cloud. The company is already working on adding a new ‘reporting engine’ to its integration solution based on client demand, which will enable developers to get aggregated reports regarding the issue tickets raised in Jira. Marvelution will continue taking feedback from developers and adding new functionalities, making software development easier and simpler for its clients. The company, by breaking the walls of siloes and building connections between different solutions, will inspire an increasing number of innovators to follow in its footsteps and usher developer-centric solutions into the market.
In addition, if the integration needs to be personalised for particular projects, Mark builds customised features for the specific client. These features, based on their effectiveness, are then made available to other clients as well.
Towards the Future of Software Development
Today, software developers are increasingly leveraging Marvelution’s Jenkins integration for Jira and achieving unprecedented levels of efficiency in the development processes.
As and when an issue occurs, the automation engine internally matches the events with the information procured by the synchronisation engine from Jenkins, before raising the tickets for relevant teams in Jira
Attesting to this is the testimony by Kevin Ultsh, systems administrator, Networks GlobeTax, who says, “This amazing JIRA add-on allows us to easily view and plan releases and confirm that everything is done in a timely matter without any roadblocks. Our project management team loves that they can easily see the latest builds along with their statuses, which helps us track if work has been successfully deployed to an environment.”
As more organisations move towards the cloud, Marvelution will continue optimising the features of its Jenkins integration for Jira and make it more suitable for the cloud. The company is already working on adding a new ‘reporting engine’ to its integration solution based on client demand, which will enable developers to get aggregated reports regarding the issue tickets raised in Jira. Marvelution will continue taking feedback from developers and adding new functionalities, making software development easier and simpler for its clients. The company, by breaking the walls of siloes and building connections between different solutions, will inspire an increasing number of innovators to follow in its footsteps and usher developer-centric solutions into the market.
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