As another great phase for the External Fingerprint Storage Project comes to an end, we summarise the work done during this phase in this blog post. It was an exciting and fruitful journey, just like the previous phase, and offered some great learning experience. To understand what the project is about and the past progress, please refer to the phase 1 blog post. New Stories Completed We targeted four stories in...

Git Plugin Performance Improvement is a Google Summer of Code 2020 project. It aims to improve the performance of the git plugin, which provides fundamental git functionalities. Internally, the plugin provides these functionalities using two implementations: command line git and JGit (pure java implementation). CLI git is the default implementation for the plugin, a user can switch to JGit if needed The project is divided into two parallel...

This blog post is about our coding phase 1 progress on GSoC project: GitHub Checks API Plugin. The GitHub Checks API is a highly customized way to integrate CI tools to make reports for pull-requests (PRs). It allows users to see CI reports on GitHub pages directly. Figure 1. GitHub Check Run Screenshot from GitHub Docs What’s more exciting is that it can leave annotations on specific lines...

Welcome back ! This blog post is briefing my coding phase 1 in Jenkins Machine Learning Plugin for this GSoC 2020. After a fresh introduction of community bonding, On June 1st, coding of GSoC had started officially with phase 1. At this point, every GSoC student should be expected to have a rigid plan with their entire project. With the guidance of mentors I was able...

Externalizing fingerprint storage for Jenkins is a Google Summer of Code 2020 project. We are working on building a pluggable storage engine for fingerprints (see JEP-226). File fingerprinting is a way to track which version of a file is being used by a job/build, making dependency tracking easy. The fingerprint engine of Jenkins can track usages of artifacts, credentials, files, etc. within the system. Currently,...

Hello everyone ! This is one of the Jenkins project in GSoC 2020. We are working this new Machine Learning Plugin for this GSoC 2020. This is my story about the community bonding of GSoC 2020. I am happy to share my journey with you. Introducing Myself and my Fantastic 4 Mentors I am Loghi Perinpanayagam from University of Moratuwa. I was selected for GSoC 2020 for Machine...

This article has been presented in an recorded online session during the Jenkins 2020 UI/UX Hackfest. For Jenkins a large number of plugins are available that visualize the results of a wide variety of build steps. There are plugins available to render the test results, the code coverage, the static analysis and so on. All of these plugins typically pick up the build results of a given build...

We know that for many of our customers Jenkins is incredibly important and its integration with Bitbucket Server is a key part of their development workflow. Unfortunately, we also know that integrating Bitbucket Server with Jenkins wasn’t always easy – it may have required multiple plugins and considerable time. That’s why earlier this year we set out to change this. We began building our own integration, and...

API keys and secrets are difficult to handle safely, and probably something you avoid thinking about. In this post I’ll show how the new AWS Secrets Manager Credentials Provider plugin allows you to marshal your secrets into one place, and use them securely from Jenkins. When CI/CD pipelines moved to the public cloud, credential management did not evolve with them. If you’re in this situation,...

Table of Contents Matrix building with scripted pipeline Screenshot of matrix pipeline Adding static choices Adding dynamic choices Full pipeline example with dynamic choices Background: How does it work? Exposing a shared library pipeline step Summary With the recent announcement about matrix building you can perform Matrix builds with declarative pipeline. However, if you must use scripted pipeline, then I’m going to cover how to matrix build platforms and tools using scripted pipeline. The examples...