Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is as program where students are paid a stipend by Google to work on a free open source project. Students work on the project full-time for four months (May to August). Mentors are actively involved with students starting at the end of February when students start to work on and submit their applications. (see the timeline) We are looking for project ideas and mentors...

I was fortunate enough to participate in the Google Summer of Code 2019 as a mentor and org admin. This was great and I wanted to share in hopes of encouraging more people to join. You can learn more about the Google Summer of Code here: https://jenkins.io/projects/gsoc/ Community Bonding The first phase of the project is the community bonding phase. This is where the student and other mentors...

The task for my Google Summer of Code program was to improve the performance of the Role Strategy Plugin. The performance issues for Role Strategy Plugin had been reported multiple times on Jenkins JIRA. With a large number of roles and with complex regular expressions, a large slow-down was visible on the Web UI. Even before GSoC started, there were a number of patches which tried to improve performance...

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 GitLab Branch Source Plugin has come out of its beta stage and has been released to the Jenkins update center. It allows you to create job based on GitLab user or group or subgroup project(s). You can either: Import a single project’s branches as jobs from a GitLab user/group/subgroup (Multibranch Pipeline Job) Import all or a subset of projects as jobs from a GitLab user/group/subgroup...

The template’s main repo is at React Plugin Template This template is part of the project Working Hours UI Improvement during Google Summer of Code 2019, which improved the UI of Working Hours Plugin using this pattern to develop Jenkins plugins with React. The Working Hours Plugin repository can be found at Working Hours Plugin. Overview Developing plugin for Jenkins has always been easy to do with its Jelly...

Last week I had the privilege of attending DevOps World - Jenkins World in San Francisco to present my Google Summer of Code project for plugin management. It was an amazing experience getting to meet people from all over world who are trying to make the development and release process easier and more efficient. I enjoyed learning more about industry tools, processes, and standards, and meeting CI/CD experts and...

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...

During my Google Summer of Code Project, I have created the brand new Folder Auth Plugin for easily managing permissions to projects organized in folders from the Folders plugin. This new plugin is designed for fast permission checks with easy-to-manage roles. The 1.0 version of the plugin has just been released and can be downloaded from your Jenkins' Update center. This plugin was inspired by the Role Strategy Plugin and brings...

At end of the first GSoC phase, I announced the first alpha release of the CLI tool and library that will help centralize plugin management and make plugin tooling easier. Phase 2 has mainly been focused on improving upon the initial CLI and library written in Coding Phase 1. In particular, we’ve been focusing on getting the tool ready to incorporate into the Jenkins Docker Image to replace the install-plugins.sh bash...