/* steve jansen */

The Jenkins credentials-binding pluginprovides a convenient way to securely store secrets like usernames/passwords inJenkins. You can even inject these secrets into build steps as environmentalvariables in a job like this:
For a username/password pair, the plugin will inject the pair as a single valuejoined by :. You can split the credentials into their respective partsusing bash string manipulation operators like % and #....

Rackspace Cloud DNS offeres a great web console, along with a solid API for managingDNS records dynamically from CM tools like Chef.
The web UI @ https://mycloud.rackspace.com doesn’t (yet) suppport an action toexport your domain(s) to standard BIND format zone files....

GitHub WebHooks and Jenkins go together like peanut butter and jelly.SCM Webhook trggers are way more efficient for Jenkins over SCM polling. Webhooks also give you a great UX – Jenkins reactsimmediately when you push a commit or open a pull request...

Thanks to some pretty awesome support from Jon Fanti and John Moore at ObjectRocket,I learned this week that we had missed two key optimizations for using ObjectRocket MongoDBs with RackspaceAuto Scaling groups (ASGs).
ServiceNet
First, ObjectRocket support can provide medium and large customers with a server FQDN that resolves to aServiceNet private IP.You can use this FQDN instead of the server name shown in the connect string for your instance. As longas your cloud servers...