Hands-on: How to use and create Jenkins themes?

Target audience: Jenkins administrators and advanced users. Presenters: Tobias Gruetzmacher and Oleg Nenashev. Time: 10:00AM UTC, May 27. Meetup will be held in Zoom Webinar, RSVP to see the link.

In this presentation we will show how to use custom Web UI themes in Jenkins. We will take a look at the Simple Theme Plugin and available themes, and then we will configure our instance to use one of the themes. Then we will try to create a custom theme for our instance.

Agenda:

• Introduction to the Simple Theme Plugin
• How to do a small changes to the UI?
• How to do a bigger theme or to create a new one?
• Jenkins UI/UX Hackfest: Working on a Jenkins Dark Theme together

References:

• Managing UI Themes: https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/managing/ui-themes/
• Simple Theme Plugin: https://plugins.jenkins.io/simple-theme-plugin/