I’m thrilled to announce that I will be participating in Google Season of Docs (GSoD) 2020 with the Jenkins project. I started contributing to Jenkins documentation during the technical writer exploration phase for Google Season of Docs 2020 and I must say, my journey so far has been nothing short of amazing majorly because of the supportive community behind this project. I chose the Jenkins project because I...

I am Long Nguyen from FPT University, Vietnam. My project for Google Summer of Code 2019 is Remoting over Apache Kafka with Kubernetes features. After a successful Phase 1, finally the 2.0 version of the plugin has been released. The 2.0 version provides seamless integration with Kubernetes environment. 2.0 version features Start a simple Apache Kafka server in Kubernetes. Dynamically provision Remoting Kafka Agent in Kubernetes. Helm chart...

I am Long Nguyen from FPT University, Vietnam. My project for Google Summer of Code 2019 is Remoting over Apache Kafka with Kubernetes features. This is the first time I have contributed for Jenkins and I am very excited to announce the features that have been done in Phase 1. Project Introduction Current version of Remoting over Apache Kafka plugin requires users to manually configure the...

The time has come - KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 has arrived. The conference has completely sold out and the schedule is jam packed with interesting talks. If you’re among those with tickets, here are a couple Jenkins related events that might interest you: On Wednesday at 3:40pm, Carlos Sanchez will be presenting Jenkins X: Continuous Delivery for Kubernetes in Tahoma 3/4 @ TCC. On Tuesday at 2:35pm, Jonathan...

At long last, the way we build and deploy software is finally changing and significantly so. The days of the persnickety, prima donna build machine where monolithic applications were built, tested, and deployed are numbered. And that is a "Good Thing (tm)" - a consequence of how we will meet the transformation goals of our businesses. Modern applications consist of distributed services, often with multiple microservices that...

This is a guest blog by Niklas Tanskanen, consultant at Eficode. Kubernetes, the container orchestration platform is rapidly becoming popular. There are more and more workloads that you can run on top of Kubernetes. It’s becoming an enabling layer of your Hyper-convergenced infrastructure. If you set up Kubernetes as a Cloud provider in Jenkins, you’ll get a very powerful couple for running your workloads. To do that, you...

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 frequence. 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...

Jenkins X uses Capabilities identified by the "Accelerate: The Science Behind Devops" Jenkins X is a reimagined CI/CD implementation for the Cloud which is heavily influence by the State of DevOps reports and more recently the book "Accelerate: The Science Behind Devops" by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble and Gene Kim Years of gathering data from real world teams and organisations which has been analyzed by inspiring thought leaders and data scientists...

Anchore provides docker image analysis for user defined acceptance policies to allow automated image validation and acceptance. As developers we would like to know if a change we are proposing introduces a Common Vulnerability and Exposure (CVE). As operators we would like to know what running applications are affected if a new CVE is discovered. Now in Jenkins X pipelines, if we find an Anchore engine service running we...

Jenkins X is an opinionated platform for providing CI / CD on top of Kubernetes. We’ve chosen a set of core applications that we install and wire together so things work out-of-the-box, providing a turn key experience. This blog aims to build on previous introductions to Jenkins X and provide a deeper insight to what you get when you install Jenkins X. So what happens? After downloading the jx...