Many new contributors may hesitate to contribute to a Jenkins plugin. They may be concerned that the time commitment is too great. They may be worried that they lack the technical skills to maintain a plugin. They may not feel adequate to handle issues related to a Jenkins plugin. This blog post introduces the "Improve a plugin" developer tutorial for new contributors. The tutorial is a result of the...

The Jenkins project provides Docker images for controllers, inbound agents, outbound agents, and more. Beginning with Jenkins 2.307 released August 17, 2021 and Jenkins 2.303.1 released August 25, 2021, the Docker images provided by the Jenkins project will use Java 11 instead of Java 8. Controllers use Java 11 by default If you are running one of the Jenkins Docker controller images that does not include a...

This blog post is for anyone interested to know how to configure a plugin using the Jenkins Configuration as a Code (JCasC) plugin, more specifically, this blog will guide you to get the YAML equivalent of a plugin’s configuration and use it to do some changes to the plugin without using the Jenkins UI. If you’re a beginner at JCasC and want to learn more...