This blog post is part 1 of a Configuration-as-Code series Jenkins is highly flexible and is today the de facto standard for implementing CI/CD, with an active community to maintain plugins for almost any combination of tools and use-cases. But flexibility has a cost: in addition to Jenkins core, many plugins require some system-level configuration to be set so they can do their job. In some circumstances,...

The Jenkins Contributor summit is where the current and future contributors of the Jenkins project get together. This summit will be on Tuesday, October 23rd 2018 in Nice, France just before Jenkins World. The summit brings together community members to learn, meet and help shape the future of Jenkins. In the Jenkins community we value all types and sizes of contributions and love to welcome new participants. It...

More and more today, continuous delivery (CD) pipelines are making use of containers. In many implementations, the primary workflow/orchestration tool for CD pipelines is Jenkins. And the primary container orchestration tool is Docker. Together these two applications provide a powerful, yet simple to understand and use, model for leveraging containers in your CD pipeline. When creating a pipeline script in Jenkins, there are multiple ways to incorporate Docker...

I am happy to announce availability of Code Coverage API. These plugins have been recently released as 1.0, and they are now available in the Jenkins Update Center. In this blogpost I will introduce the features and project structure of Code Coverage API plugin. My name is Shenyu Zheng, and I am an undergraduate student in Computer Science and Technology at Henan University from China. Overview Code...

DevOps World | Jenkins World 2018 in San Francisco is only a month away. It is shaping up to be a great event including the Contributor Summit, the "Ask the Experts" desk at the Jenkin booth, several days of training and certifications, and tons of informative presentation and demos. To give you a taste of what you’ll see this year at DevOps World | Jenkins World 2018, we’ve lined...

We just released security updates to Jenkins, versions 2.138 and 2.121.3, that fix multiple security vulnerabilities. For an overview of what was fixed, see the security advisory. For an overview on the possible impact of these changes on upgrading Jenkins LTS, see our LTS upgrade guide. Subscribe to the jenkinsci-advisories mailing list to receive important notifications related to Jenkins security....

About me I am Abhishek Gautam, 3rd year student from Visvesvaraya National Institute of technology, India, Nagpur. I was a member of ACM Chapter and Google student developer club of my college. I am passionate about automation. Project Summary This is a GSoC 2018 project. This project aims to develop a pull request Job Plugin. Users should be able to configure job type using YAML file placed in root directory of...

Everyone is talking about serverless. As with any new hyped-technology the term 'serverless' is often overloaded with different meanings. Sometimes serverless is oversimplified to mean function-as-a-service(faas). But there is more to it than that. Also, not many people are talking about doing CI/CD with serverless, even though where there is code there still in need of continuous integration and continuous delivery. So I was excited to hear about this talk...