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• Jenkins Health Advisor by CloudBees Tool Makes Life Easier for Jenkins Administrators

  There are many ways to set up your Jenkins environment, and depending on the configuration you choose, there are different best practices and options to optimize your environment. In this blog, I’m going to focus on Jenkins Health Advisor by CloudBees as a way to fine-tune your environment. It’s a free tool that can help administrators understand and manage their Jenkins controller. If...

  

  Arnaud Héritier September 23, 2021
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  New eBook: Fortune 500 Developers and Engineers Turn to Jenkins for Real-World Results

  If you’ve been following JenkinsIsTheWay.io, you’ve read some fantastic stories from the Jenkins user community about the great stuff they are building with Jenkins. With over 200,000 installations to date, Jenkins remains the most widely used open-source automation server. And story after story, we hear what a critical role Jenkins plays in building robust, secure CI/CD pipelines. So it comes as no surprise...

  

  Alyssa Tong September 22, 2021
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  Join Jenkins at DevOps World 2021

  DevOps World has been the largest gathering for Jenkins for many years. In keeping with tradition, many Jenkins presentations and sessions are planned for this year’s event. Join us for DevOps World on September 28 - 30, 2021. The event is virtual, free to attend and will include the following Jenkins activities: Jenkins workshops Contributing to Open Source Securing Jenkins Pipeline with CyberArk Conjur Secrets Manager See...

  

  Alyssa Tong September 21, 2021
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  Jenkins Election 2021

  Dear all, Time flies and the Jenkins elections period is here. This year, two board seats and all officer positions are up for election. Thanks, Oleg Nenashev and Ullrich Hafner who led the Jenkins project as board members for the last two years. Thanks, Tim Jacomb, Daniel Beck, Mark Waite for your dedication as officers over the past year. We already had two successful editions...

  

  Olivier Vernin September 20, 2021
• Jenkins project Confluence instance attacked

  Earlier this week the Jenkins infrastructure team identified a successful attack against our deprecated Confluence service. We responded immediately by taking the affected server offline while we investigated the potential impact. At this time we have no reason to believe that any Jenkins releases, plugins, or source code have been affected. Thus far in our investigation, we have learned that the Confluence CVE-2021-26084...

  

  Mark Waite

  

  R. Tyler Croy September 4, 2021
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  Work report for the Conventional Commits Plugin for Jenkins

  This blog post is part 2 of the Introducing the Conventional Commits Plugin blog. The goal of this blog is to showcase the work done during the Google Summer of Code 2021 coding phases. Please refer the part 1 of the blog for a detailed description of the plugin. Abstract The project/plugin aims to fully automate a release process. The plugin tries to achieve this...

  

  Aditya Srivastava August 28, 2021
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  Security Validator for Jenkins Operator for Kubernetes

  Background Jenkins custom resources on a Kubernetes cluster are deployed using declarative YAML configuration files; hence some of the plugins declared in these files may contain security warnings. So there is no way for the user to know other than manually checking for each on the site. This project aims to add an extra step of validation before creating/updating a new Jenkins Custom...

  

  Pulkit Sharma August 23, 2021
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  Git Credentials Binding for sh, bat, powershell

  Abstract This project implemented two new credential bindings to perform authenticated operations using command line git in Jenkins pipeline and freestyle jobs. The two credential bindings are gitSshPrivateKey and gitUsernamePassword. Implementation Type Feature Location The gitUsernamePassword binding is implemented in Jenkins git plugin v4.8.0. The gitSshPrivateKey binding is implemented in a pull request to the Jenkins git plugin Dependencies Credentials Binding Plugin- It is used to bind Git specific environment variables...

  Harshit Chopra August 19, 2021
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  Docker images use Java 11 by default

  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...

  

  Mark Waite

  

  Dheeraj Singh Jodha August 17, 2021