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Introducing external storage for JUnit test results

In common CI/CD use-cases a lot of the space is consumed by test reports. This data is stored within JENKINS_HOME, and the current storage format requires huge overheads when retrieving statistics and, especially, trends. In order to display trends, each report has to be loaded and then processed in-memory. The main purpose of externalising Test Results is to optimize Jenkins performance and storage by querying...

Tim Jacomb October 28, 2021
CloudEvents Plugin for Jenkins: Interoperability between Jenkins and other CI/CD Tools

The What, Why and How of Interoperability With workloads and teams becoming more diverse and complex, there is an increasing need to automate various tasks in the CI/CD ecosystem of an application as a way to decrease complexity that can come with CI/CD. A more diverse team working across different aspects of the application requires a diverse suite of CI/CD tools too,...

Shruti Chaturvedi August 2, 2021
Custom Distribution Service : Phase 3 Blogpost

Hello everyone, This is the final blog post for the Custom Distribution Service project during the Google Summer of Code timeline. I have mixed feelings since we are almost near the finish line for one of the most amazing open source programs out there. However, it is time to wrap things up for this project and achieve a state where the project can...

Sladyn Nunes August 31, 2020
External Fingerprint Storage Phase-3 Update: Introducing the PostgreSQL Fingerprint Storage Plugin

The final phase for the External Fingerprint Storage Project has come to an end and to finish off, we release one more fingerprint storage plugin: the PostgreSQL Fingerprint Storage Plugin! This post highlights the progress made during phase-3. To understand what the project is about and the past progress, please refer to the phase-1 post and the phase-2 post. Introducing the PostgreSQL Fingerprint Storage Plugin Why PostgreSQL? There were...

Sumit Sarin August 25, 2020
Custom Distribution Service : Phase 2 Blogpost

Hello everyone, It is time to wrap up another successful phase for the custom distribution service project, and we have incorporated most of the features that we had planned at the start of the phase. It has been an immense learning curve for me and the entire team. To understand what the project is about and the past progress, please refer to the phase...

Sladyn Nunes August 9, 2020
Custom Distribution Service : Midterm Summary

Hello, After an eventful community bonding period we finally entered into the coding phase. This blog post will summarize the work done till the midterm of the coding phases i.e. week 6. If some of the topics here require a more detailed explanation, I will write a separate blog post. These blogs posts will not have a very defined format but...

Sladyn Nunes July 27, 2020
External Fingerprint Storage Phase-2 Updates

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...

Sumit Sarin July 24, 2020
External Fingerprint Storage Phase-1 Updates

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....

Sumit Sarin June 27, 2020
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 is Here!

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...

Liam Newman December 10, 2018