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 in a row. I...

On the 29th of March 2021, we’ll rotate the Jenkins update center certificate. The existing certificate expires in April 2021. When the new certificate is installed on March 29, 2021, Jenkins versions older than 2.178 (April 2018), won’t be able to communicate with the default and experimental update centers. Instances using alternative update centers (self-hosted or vendor-provided) will not be affected by this change. Regarding plugins update, the...

The Jenkins project relies heavily on its infrastructure. We use websites like www.jenkins.io and plugins.jenkins.io, ticketing systems like issues.jenkins.io , CI/CD infrastructure like ci.jenkins.io , and many other services. Just to provide some context about the Jenkins infrastructure scale, here are some stats from April 2020: Over 600 000 people visited www.jenkins.io Over 250 000 Jenkins servers regularly checked the Jenkins package server and the Jenkins update server Over 43...

FOSDEM 2020 is coming and with it, a lot of great folks come in town. It’s always a great moment to meet Jenkins community members, share stories and get inspired. I hope that this year will be as great as it always been and for that, we organize a few things Things we’ll do During the whole event, we’ll be virtually on the Gitter On the Thursday 30 of...

Next week Olivier Vernin from CloudBees and Brian Benz from Microsoft will be presenting a session at DevOps World | Jenkins World about how Microsoft has been working with Jenkins to build Jenkins plugins and produce Jenkins on Microsoft Azure. These plugins run Jenkins on Azure Linux and Windows VMs, Kubernetes, azure App service, as well as deploy artifacts to those Azure platforms and more. All...

Jenkins infrastructure is continuously improving. The latest service to get some attention and major improvement is the Jenkins javadoc. There were a number of issues affecting that service: Irregular updates - Developers wouldn’t find the latest java documentation because of inadequate update frequency. Broken HTTPS support - when users would go to the Javadoc site they would get an unsafe site warning and then an incorrect redirection. Obsolete content - Javadoc...

Over the last year, several efforts were done on jenkins.io like security advisories or documentation and I wanted to understand the impact it had on its traffic. I had a look to the Google Analytics account used for jenkins.io and it was interesting to discover which browsers are used by Jenkins visitors and how this compares with other websites. So I decided to analyze one year of data from January...

With the ongoing migration to Azure, I would like to share my thoughts regarding one of the biggest challenges we have faced thus far: orchestrating container infrastructure. Many of the Jenkins project’s applications are run as Docker containers, making Kubernetes a logical choice as far as running our containers, but it presents its own set of challenges. For example, what would the workflow from development to production look like? Before going deeper...