Hello Jenkins Community.
Jenkins is one of the most popular automation servers used by organizations as they are increasingly using CI/CD pipelines for the delivery of software. As security issues have increased, it has become more critical than ever to secure Jenkins instances.
Would like to hear from the community what the security measures are that you consider to be mandatory for a production Jenkins set up. Areas which come to mind include:
Set up and manage user authentication and authorization.
Installed Jenkins agents/build nodes and secured them.
Secure credentials and secrets are essential.Securing credentials and secrets is critical.
Plugin management and strategies for update.
Isolate and restrict network access.Network isolation and access controls.
Monitoring and auditing Jenkins activities
What are some of the best practices for securing large scale deployments of Jenkins? Have you seen any standard misconfigurations or vulnerabilities that administrators should know about?
I think this talk may benefit both Jenkins novices and veterans in making their CI/CD pipelines more secure and reliable.
Happy to take any suggestions or lessons learnt.