After an amazing three months of development period in the summer of 2019 with Jenkins Project, I was a better developer, loved open source, met passionate people and had fun at work. Jenkins is not just a community, it is a family. When GSoC period was over, we received swags from Jenkins. Natasha Stopa (one of the students in GSoC 2019) was invited to attend DevOps...

I had the privilege of being invited to DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 for presenting the work I did during Google Summer of Code 2019. What follows is a day-by-day summary of an amazing trip to the conference. Day 0: December 1, 2019 I am an undergraduate student from New Delhi, India and had traveled to Lisbon to attend the conference. I had an early morning flight to Lisbon from...

This is a speaker blog post for a DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 talk in Lisbon, Portugal and has been posted in line with NCC Group responsible disclosure policy. Related Jenkins security advisories: 2017-11-08, 2017-11-16, 2018-06-25, 2018-07-30, 2018-09-25, 2019-02-19, 2019-03-06, 2019-03-25, 2019-04-03, 2019-04-17, 2019-08-07, 2019-09-12, 2019-10-01, 2019-10-16, 2019-10-23. Some of the vulnerabilities have been announced without a fix, see Jenkins Security Spring Cleaning 2019. The most of the announced vulnerabilities are fixed at the moment of this blogpost publishing. Come join us...

Context You have been tasked with managing the Jenkins instance for the highest grossing mobile game in the world. You learn that this involves helping the game studio iterate their work against eight different target platforms, each with their SDK, on four different main pipelines, plus a lot of extra auxiliary jobs. And, of course, the studio wants all of this to go smoothly, in order to maintain a...

DevOps World | Jenkins World San Francisco was August 12 - 15, 2019. The event was delivered in vivid colors starting with flowing banners hung from street lamp posts to the big screens in breakout rooms, to the expo hall. The energy and enthusiasm in the Moscone convention center made the colors even more vibrant, thanks to the people attending the conference. Here’s a recap of the...

This is a speaker blogpost for a DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 talk in Lisbon, Portugal With Halloween upon us, there’s no better time to discuss Jenkinstein! Are you suffering from Jenkins performance issues? Are users complaining about a slow UI or even scarier, is Jenkins going down frequently? Come join me at DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 for "Jenkins Performance: Avoiding Pitfalls, Diagnosing Issues, and...

This is a speaker blogpost for a DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 talk in Lisbon, Portugal Come join us at DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 for "Thinking about Jenkins Security", a talk about securing your Jenkins server. We’ll review the layers that secure Jenkins and describe techniques that you can use to protect your Jenkins server. Topics will include: The secure by default configuration that Jenkins...

Jenkins turns 15 years old! Jenkins World brings together DevOps thought leaders, IT executives, continuous delivery practitioners and the Jenkins community and ecosystem in one global event, providing attendees with the opportunity to learn, explore, network face-to-face and help shape the next evolution of Jenkins development and solutions for DevOps. There is also the Jenkins Contributor Summit in San Francisco. The Jenkins Contributor Summit is the place where current...

The DevOps World | Jenkins World shuttle is ready for lift off once again. As usual, the sign of festivities looming begins with the Call for Speakers. Those who attended DevOps World | Jenkins World 2018 know that DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 is coming back to San Francisco, and adding a stop in Europe - Lisbon, Portugal. Jenkins World USA | San Francisco...

When I first wrote about Jenkins Evergreen, which was then referred to as "Jenkins Essentials", I mentioned a number of future developments which in the subsequent months have become reality. At this year’s DevOps World - Jenkins World in San Francisco, I will be sharing more details on the philosophy behind Jenkins Evergreen, show off how far we have come, and discuss where we’re going with this radical distribution of...