About In the Jenkins ecosystem, there are over 1800 plugins. The plugins are not equal in terms of their quality, maintenance or support. As an instance administrator or an engineer working in a shared service team, determining which plugins are of good quality can be complicated. When someone asks you to install a plugin, what should you check before installing it? If you are a maintainer, what should you...

Jenkins has great integration with Kubernetes. No matter the controller or agents, they all work well in Kubernetes Pods. Configuration as Code is an awesome idea. People don’t need to open the UI page of Jenkins again and again. We can put all the system configuration into a git repository. You might already feel tired to edit a super huge Kubernetes YAML file if there are many many Jenkins...

Open source software has changed software development. Companies readily use open source as a key part of their software development and delivery. Open source operating systems dominate cloud computing operating systems. Open source JavaScript libraries and frameworks like Angular, Vue.js, and React are key components in web applications. Open source Java libraries and frameworks like Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Hibernate, and Grails provide effective and powerful foundations for...

This is a speaker blogpost for a DevOps World 2022 talk in Orlando, Florida Come join me at DevOps World 2022 for "Naively Building Android Apps with Jenkins. Not Natively, Naively.", a talk about my journey with Jenkins while trying to build and publish Android applications without prior Jenkins knowledge. I’ve been tinkering with various CI/CD tools for years (Gitlab CI, Circle CI, Travis CI, Shippable,...

About The Jenkins Contributor Summit brings together current and future contributors to the Jenkins project. It is a community driven event, with its agenda created with input and suggestions from Jenkins community members. Date | Location Tuesday, September 27, 2022 @ 9AM - 5PM DevOps World 2022 | Orlando, Florida This Contributor Summit will be in-person. It is Free to attend. Sign up is required. Seats are limited. Conference registration...

Introduction The Jenkins project is committed to delivering a world-class platform experience for end users and developers alike. At the core of this experience is Java, an object-oriented programming language with a cross-platform runtime in the form of the Java virtual machine (JVM). Since its inception, the Jenkins project has been a major consumer of Java, distributing over 1,800 plugins to an installed base of over 300,000...

Summary Beginning with Jenkins weekly v2.333 (released on January 31, 2022) and Jenkins LTS v2.346.1, Jenkins core has upgraded from GIF and PNG icons to SVG icons. Plugins that will be affected by this change are tracked in a spreadsheet found in JENKINS-68251. Plugins that do not interact with icons are unaffected by this change. Background Scalable vector graphics (SVG) icons provide a more attractive user interface. They are able...

The GSoC community bonding period just finished. The four Jenkins GSoC projects are now ready. Contact between contributors and mentors is established. Regular communication channels are setup (weekly project meetings and dedicated chat). Links to the project plans and plannings drafts are published on the project pages. Next step, the actual coding! Together with their mentors, Dheeraj, Ymming, Hrushikesh, and Vihaan will work the whole summer on their respective projects. End...