CloudEvents plugin for Jenkins

As the CI/CD world is moving more towards interoperability between multiple platforms, Jenkins should also be compatible with the same interoperability standards. Some of these standards with respect to communication between different CI/CD platforms are put forth by the CloudEvents specification. This spec outlines the structure of CloudEvents, which are produced or consumed by entities which support it, hence making those entities compatible with other CI/CD platforms which also support them allowing them to work together.

Jenkins currently does not support CloudEvents, making it hard for users to use it with other platforms which support them.

The previous CloudEvents plugin project in Google Summer of Code was a predecessor to the CDEvents project, that is currently running in the Continuous Delivery Foundation. To provide some context, the CDEvents project is an incubating project at the Continuous Delivery Foundation. More information about that project is available at https://cdevents.dev/. For this new project, we will enable Jenkins to support CDEvents. That may involve extending or adjusting the CloudEvents plugin so that it supports CDEvents. The most likely scenario is that we will start a new plugin for this project.

This project is of medium size and is expected to be completed in ~175 hours.

Intermediate to Advanced

There are many examples of such documentation on the web:

The project requires the student to start with plugin development from scratch and then work with understanding how to use the CloudEvents Java SDK to create and read events.

In the beginning, the student can work on understanding the Jenkins plugin development by writing code for creating a simple Build Step which creates a CloudEvent, and from there we can move to the GlobalPluginConfiguration on how Jenkins should listen to the CloudEvents.