Platform SIG August 01 2023

[poddingue (Bruno Verachten)]

2023 08 01 Jenkins Platform SIG

Attending:

• Bruno Verachten
• Kevin Martens
• Mark Waite

Agenda:

• Open Action items:
  • What about the August 15th meeting?
    • Let’s cancel
  • Docker Images
    • Container image deprecation for the blue ocean container (jenkinsci:blueocean)
      • https://hub.docker.com/r/jenkins/blueocean - no tags
      • Docker - has
      • Need to announce the deprecation of the image
        • Update the page on Dockerhub
        • Add to a Jenkins LTS changelog or upgrade guide?
        • Add a disclaimer to one or more pages on www.jenkins.io?
          • Update the 2017 Blue Ocean blog post with deprecation notice?
      • Report it on it regularly in Platform SIG meetings
      • Create an issue that proposes the deprecation

What has been done?

• Work on agent and controller images
  • Ssh-agent: lots of version bumps, resulting to one release (5.8.0) :
    • Bullseye
    • JDK17
    • Git version on Windows
  • Docker-agent: lots of version bumps too, resulting to two releases (3131.vf2b_b_798b_ce99-5 and 3142.vcfca_0cd92128-1):
    • ArchLinux version
    • Bullseye
    • Jenkins remoting
    • JDK17
    • JDK11
    • Git on Windows
  • Inbound-agent, a few versions bumps and some new images, resulting in two new releases (3131.vf2b_b_798b_ce99-5 and 3142.vcfca_0cd92128-1):
    • Jenkins-agent
    • Windows 2022 images
      • Lots of interest in it, as Windows 2019 is reaching end-of-life
    • A lot of work in progress too, see next section
  • Controller, with 3 new releases (2.415, 2.416, 2.417):
    • New versions of JDK11 and 17
    • Bump Bullseye version

Ongoing:

• Latest work on the docker images:
  • Ssh-agent
    • Bump git-lfs version on Windows to v3.4.0
    • Added support for building jenkins-ci for next version of debian
    • switch OpenSSH installation to the Windows native one
    • How do we name containers?
      • Controller side: we don’t encode the OS name consistently into the agent name?
      • Should we adopt a consisting naming pattern?
  • Docker-agent:
    • feat: add nanoserver-ltsc2019 tags and fix windowsservercore-ltsc2019 base image
  • Inbound-agent:
    • Sync README.md with docker hub
    • chore(updatecli): track nmap version (used in Windows tests)
  • Controller:
    • Uninstalling a plugin

News:

• End of life operating systems
• Java 17 instructions
  • Windows docs still have to be updated
  • A blog post went out today announcing the transition
  • Mostly completed
• Java 11, Java 17, and Java 21 in Jenkins - proposal from Mark Waite