The document discusses the challenges organizations face with Jenkins, such as plugin compatibility and upgrade issues. It introduces the CloudBees Jenkins Team as a solution, providing a curated distribution of Jenkins with verified integrations, expert support, and robust features that ensure seamless continuous delivery. Additionally, it highlights the benefits of their Assurance Program, which includes rigorous testing and ongoing support to ensure system stability and security.

1. Standardizing Jenkins
Bhavani Rao
Product Marketing Manager
Andres Rodriguez
Technical Lead

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Agenda
• Challenges with Jenkins
• Solution
• CloudBees Jenkins Team
• CloudBees Jenkins Distribution
• CloudBees Assurance Program (CAP)
• 24/7 Support
• Demo
• Summary
• Q&A

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Commit Build Test Stage Deploy
Complex delivery pipelines
Delivery of app and config
Robust and highly available
Results report
Code commit
Development Production
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Continuous integration/delivery
SOURCE
CODE
CONTROL
SYSTEM
Jenkins – #1 Automation Platform for CI CD

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Over 1.7 Million users 1,300+ plugins cover every
stage of delivery
Jenkins is the Hub of Continuous Delivery
Code & Commit Build & Config Scan & Test Release Deploy

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Challenges Teams Face With Jenkins
• Are plugins compatible?
• Do plugins work as advertised?
• How can we upgrade Jenkins and plugins without
crashing?
• What do we do when there is trouble?

6. CloudBees Jenkins Team

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What is the Solution?
CloudBees Jenkins Team is the CloudBees Jenkins
distribution with curated, verified integrations and expert
support, for organizations in need of a reliable continuous
delivery solution.

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CloudBees Jenkins Team: Components
Commit Build Test Stage Deploy Operate

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CloudBees Jenkins Team Benefits
• Worry-free, boring upgrades
• Monthly, backward compatible
updates with latest innovations
• One-click upgrades
• Eliminate guesswork on plugin
compatibility & quality
• Integrate your tools with the
Jenkins plugin ecosystem
• Ensure compliance with
recommended configurations
• Access Jenkins experts, any
time of day
• Free online training
• Knowledge articles and user
Community
Rock-solid Jenkins Distribution Verified integrations 24/7 expert technical support
Continuous Delivery with peace of mind

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CloudBees Jenkins Distribution
• Rock-solid distribution of plugins & core
• Curated from the most current Jenkins
LTS line
• Smooth upgrades within rolling 9 month
window
• Security fixes

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Security That Protects Your Business Pipeline
Zero-day Jenkins vulnerability discovered
• Public announcement with work-around
• Security alert email sent to customers
Fix developed & tested
Day 1

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Security That Protects Your Business Pipeline
und
s
Security issue patched and released
• Patch notification email to customers
Day 5

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Security That Protects Your Business Pipeline
s
Continued verification of Jenkins core and plugins
Ongoing

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CloudBees Jenkins Distribution
• Monthly & incremental updates
• Stable, verified core and plugins
• Backwards compatibility
• Security fixes
• Get the latest in Jenkins innovation
• Eliminate downtime
• Excitingly boring, one-click upgrades
• Fast remediation of threats
Features Benefits

15. CloudBees Assurance Program

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CloudBees Assurance Program
Rigorous vetting process for verifying Jenkins core &
plugins
• In-depth testing of top open source plugins
• In-depth interoperability testing of core & plugins
• Curate components and verify upgrade paths
• 30+ engineers, hundreds of hours of testing in every
release
• Large investment, difficult to replicate
• Continuous process
• Exposed through Beekeeper Upgrade Assistant
Upgradability
Test
Acceptance
Test
Scalability
Test
Compatibility
Test
Installer
Test

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Continuous Delivery Drives Rolling & Incremental Upgrades
• Rolling release train
• Releases every 4-6 weeks
▸ Plus when needed (e.g. security).
• Each release brings a new recommended
configuration
• Beekeeper provides coordinated upgrades
• Incremental upgrades
• Delivers changes to plugins or security fixes
• Released as needed between rolling release
• Same level of confidence / hardening
• Provides upgrade simulation
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Beekeeper Upgrade Assistant – the UI for CAP
• Continuous monitoring of the CJT
instance:
• Installed Components
• Update Centers configuration
• Helps maintain the instance in the
recommended configuration:
• Plugin Manager filtering
• Reporting of any deviation found:
• Proposing correcting actions
• Optional enforcement of the
recommended configuration:
• Upgrading or installing plugins when
needed.

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Verified Plugins
Authentication
Tokens API
Secure Requester
Whitelist
Credentials Binding
Credentials
Plain Credentials
Script Security
SSH Credentials
LDAP
OWASP Markup
Formatter
Security
Windows
Agents
SSH Agents
Management Utilities
Variant
Metrics
Async HTTP Client
Icon Shim
MapDB API
Token Macro
Jackson 2 API
Display URL API
CloudBees
Folders
Mailer
Structs
Source
Branch API
GitHub Branch
Source
Git Server
Git Client
SCM API
Git
Build
Config File
Provider
Ant
Gradle
MSBuild
JUnit
Plugin
MSTest
Runner
Test Deploy
Javadoc
Find the complete plugin list
on CloudBees Network

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Continuous Delivery
Compatible Plugins (undergoing testing)
Blue Ocean:
Dashboard
Blue Ocean: Config
API
Blue Ocean:Common
API
Blue Ocean
GitHub
Blue Ocean: Pipeline
REST API
GitHub API
Continuous Delivery
Blue Ocean: JWT
Blue Ocean: i8N
Pipeline Milestone
Pipeline Multibranch
Pipeline Stage View
Pipeline
Pipeline: Declarative
Agent API
Pipeline: Model API
Declarative Pipeline
Blue Ocean:
Personalization
Blue Ocean:
Pipeline Editor
Blue Ocean:Web
Pipeline: Build Step
Pipeline: Graph Analysis
Pipeline: SCM
Pipeline Groovy
Pipeline Shared Libraries
Optimization
Monitoring
Matrix Project
Promoted Builds
JavaScript GUI Lib
Find the complete plugin list
on CloudBees Network
Continuous Delivery
Blue Ocean: Events
API
Blue Ocean:Git
Pipeline
Blue Ocean:GitHub
pipeline
Blue Ocean: REST
API
Blue Ocean: REST
Implementation
Pipeline: Durable Task
Continuous Delivery Source Control

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CloudBees Assurance Program
• Verified integrations
• Growing list of plugins without quality or
interoperability concerns
• Beekeeper Upgrade Assistant
• Sends notifications when upgrades
available
• Monitors, identifies configuration issues
• Publishes plugin stability, security &
compatibility on CloudBees Network
• Avoid death from a thousand plugins
• Work with your favorite DevOps tools
• Ensure compliance with recommendations
• Chose plugins based on your risk tolerance /
business needs
• Guidance on which plugins are robust and
compatible
Features Benefits

22. Customer Success

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CloudBees Customer Success
• Expert (Dev-level) support engineers available
anytime
• 24/7 Expert Technical Support
• Assigned Customer Success Managers
• Named contact from Onboarding through Adoption
• CloudBees Professional Services
• CloudBees University
• Free online training
• CloudBees Network
• User community
• Documentation

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CloudBees Enables Success
Access to the Jenkins and
DevOps Experts
• Support
• Training
• Consulting
• Certification

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CloudBees Network
Hub of:
▸ Jenkins knowledge
▸ Community
▸ Training
go.cloudbees.com

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CloudBees Customer Success
• Access to Jenkins Experts
• Free self-paced online training
• Assigned Customer Success
Managers
• CloudBees Network
• Solve issue and obtain guidance on
best practices
• Increase mastery and adoption of CI
&CD
• Proactive engagement from on-
boarding onward
• Find answers and resolve issues with
knowledge base, diagnostic tools and
community
Features Benefits

27. DEMO

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Demo Highlights
• Initial install
• Behavior when Beekeeper is enabled / disabled
• Monitoring and enforcement of the recommended configuration
• Set the instance outside the recommended configuration
• Beekeeper detects issue
• Let Beekeeper enforce the configuration
• Install incremental upgrade
• Check the simulation
• Approve the upgrade
• Check it is correctly performed

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Would you like to a 14-day trial license of CloudBees Jenkins Team?

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Why Do You Need CloudBees Jenkins Team?
Verified
Integrations
• Expert (Developer-level) Jenkins support engineers
• Free training
• Knowledge repository for best practices and Jenkins tips & tricks
24/7 Support
• Use the DevOps tools you love
• Eliminate guesswork on plugin compatibility & quality
• Maintain compliance with recommend configuration
• Deploy confidently
• Continuous innovation with verified monthly releases
• Easy, boring upgrades
Rock-solid Jenkins

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CAP Today - Rock Solid Distribution (III) - Verification
Plugin Selection
Critical Use Case Identification
Plugin Version Selection
Single Component Perspective Distribution Perspective
Documentation
Dependency Analysis
Test Coverage (based on Critical Use Cases)
QA Tools Integrated in the Build
Best Practices
Existing Issues Review
Compatibility Analysis and Testing
Acceptance Test Coverage (based on Critical Use Cases)
Upgradeability
Multi - platform testing
Verdict and Follow-up Actions