Maintenance with downtime of JFrog Artifactory (repo.jenkins-ci.org) December 18, 2022 December 18, 2022: our sponsor JFrog will proceed to perform maintenance of our "jenkinsci" Artifactory instance. Expect a complete downtime of about 6 hours due to the nature of this maintenance. The maintenance involves cloud migration from Google Cloud to Amazon Web Services. Impacts Only Jenkins contributors will be impacted, as no releases or builds on ci.jenkins.io or on...

This is a guest post by R. Tyler Croy, who is a long-time contributor to Jenkins and the primary contact for Jenkins project infrastructure. He is also a Jenkins Evangelist at CloudBees, Inc. For ages I have used the "Build After" feature in Jenkins to cobble together what one might refer to as a "pipeline" of sorts. The Jenkins project itself, a major consumer of Jenkins, has used these daisy-chained...

I am pleased to announce that we have partnered with Microsoft to migrate and power the Jenkins project’s infrastructure with Microsoft Azure. The partnership comes at an important time, after the recent launch of Jenkins 2.0, Jenkins users are more readily adopting Pipeline as Code and many other plugins at an increasing rate, elevating the importance of Jenkins infrastructure to the overall success of the project. That strong and continued growth...

Last week, the infrastructure team identified the potential compromise of a key infrastructure machine. This compromise could have taken advantage of, what could be categorized as, an attempt to target contributors with elevated access. Unfortunately, when facing the uncertainty of a potential compromise, the safest option is to treat it as if it were an actual incident, and react accordingly. The machine in question had access to binaries published...