The Jenkins project provides Docker images for controllers, inbound agents, outbound agents, and more. Beginning with Jenkins 2.307 released August 17, 2021 and Jenkins 2.303.1 released August 25, 2021, the Docker images provided by the Jenkins project will use Java 11 instead of Java 8. Controllers use Java 11 by default If you are running one of the Jenkins Docker controller images that does not include a...

The What, Why and How of Interoperability With workloads and teams becoming more diverse and complex, there is an increasing need to automate various tasks in the CI/CD ecosystem of an application as a way to decrease complexity that can come with CI/CD. A more diverse team working across different aspects of the application requires a diverse suite of CI/CD tools too, to test and deliver...

Goal The goal of this project: collect telemetry data(metrics, traces, logs) of remoting module with OpenTelemetry. send the telemetry data to OpenTelemetry Protocol endpoint Which OpenTelemetry endpoint to use and how to visualize the data are up to users. OpenTelemetry An observability framework for cloud-native software OpenTelemetry is a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs. You can use it to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data(metrics, logs, and traces) for analysis in order to...

The conventional commits plugin is a Google Summer of Code project. Special thanks to the mentors Gareth Evans, Kristin Whetstone, Olivier Vernin and Allan Burdajewicz. What are Conventional Commits According to the official website, conventonal commits are, "A specification for adding human and machine readable meaning to commit messages." Conventional commits are a lightweight convention on top of commit messages. The following table shows major structural elements offered by...

Google Summer of Code 2021 is implementing git credentials binding for sh, bat, and powershell. Git credentials binding is one of the most requested features for Jenkins Pipeline (see JENKINS-28335). The project involves extending the Credentials Binding Plugin to create custom bindings for two types of credentials essential to establish a remote connection with a git repository Username/Password SSH Private Key Why use git credentials binding? Many operations in a...

Congratulations to all GSoC students who have made it through the first half of the GSoC 2021 coding phase! This year, the Jenkins project has been participating in GSoC as part of the Continuous Delivery Foundation’s GSoC org. To celebrate our GSoC students and the fantastic work they have been doing, the CDF is hosting an online meetup where students will present their work. Students will be...

Context Jenkins is a CI/CD solution and as such, it is critical that the open source plugins that constitute an integral part of it don’t expose the systems they are used on to any security risks and vulnerabilities. It is in that context that we worked as an audit/code review team to track and report such flaws and problematic practices. We worked in collaboration with Jenkins Security...

We are happy to announce that the Jenkins community has moved all its official IRC channels to Libera chat. We have started our migration on May 26 as a response to the hostile takeover of hundreds of open source community channel by the new Freenode management. As decided by the Jenkins governance meeting on June 16th, Libera Chat IRC channels are the only official channels going forward. A more detailed...