Platform SIG September 23, 2022

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2022-09-23T15:00:00Z

Sep 23, 2022

Attending:

  • Mark Waite
  • Bruno Verachten

Agenda:

  • Open action items:
    • Agents of ci.jenkins.io on ppc64le
      • Mark needs to share credentials with infrastructure team
      • Needs more work after DevOps World
  • RISC-V support for Jenkins agents - Bruno Verachten
  • Container image deprecation for the blueocean container (jenkinsci:blueocean)
    • 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?
        • content/blog/2017/01/2017-01-13-blueocean-dev-log-jan.adoc
    • Find a way to communicate the deprecation to users and admins
      • Jenkins administrative monitor that checks for specific container content?
    • Report it on it regularly in Platform SIG meetings
    • Create an issue that proposes the deprecation and the needed steps
  • Container repository management for Jenkins agents
    • Simplifying the release process
      • Multiple repositories and multiple images from those repositories
      • Releases are complicated unnecessarily
        • Adding arm64 for docker images was too complicated
    • Combining the repositories to simplify image management
      • Need more detailed plan and design
      • Cannot drop support for the existing containers
        • Retain the container structure, but remain compatible
    • Separate repository for Jenkins agents with tools installed
      • Not actively maintained, many of the containers are still using Java 8, won’t work with most recent LTS, they need to be upgraded
        • Download metrics are available from Dockerhub, could use those measure to prioritize the effort
    • Topic for discussion at Jenkins Contributor Summit or near the Summit
  • Require Java 11 or newer for Jenkins core
    • Ongoing minor tasks
      • Dropping Java 8 from the Docker agents - merged, not yet released
      • Plugins beginning to require Java 11, ongoing process
    • Many resources available to help users as they upgrade
  • Java 17 support in Jenkins
    • Ongoing, a few recent reports, working well
    • Jenkins infra planning to put one or more of the infra machines on JDK 17
  • Java 19 has released
    • Is illegal access now blocked?
    • Groovy upgrade may be required to remove illegal access warnings
  • DevOps World Sep 26-29, 2022 Orlando
    • Agenda is available for Tuesday Sep 26, 2022
    • EC2 instances of macOS - Contributor Summit presentation
    • Also can discuss at the AWS booth or at the Jenkins booth
  • Supply chain security - possible contributor summit topic
    • Software bill of materials (SBOM)
    • Signing of components (sigstore)