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  Plugin of the Month – October 2026: Kubernetes Plugin

  Welcome back to the Plugin of the Month series, where we highlight useful and impactful tools from the Jenkins ecosystem. As Halloween approaches, Jenkins builds don’t need to haunt a fleet of idle agents. This October, we’re featuring the Kubernetes Plugin, which conjures build agents as pods in a Kubernetes cluster whenever a pipeline needs them. Teams can tailor each pod’s containers to...

  

  Stefan Spieker October 18, 2026
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  Jenkins Board and Officer Elections 2026 - Nominations Open

  We are excited to announce the 2026 Jenkins Governance Board and Officer elections! Nominations Nominations can be submitted for governance board positions and all officer positions (Security, Events, Release, Infrastructure, and Documentation). During the registration period, we invite community members to nominate candidates by sending a message to the election-committee group. In your message, please include the name of the nominee, the specific position...

  

  Mark Waite October 14, 2026
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  Daily Life as a Jenkins Administrator

  Agent ecosystem overview The second blog post focused on one specific part of your Kubernetes environment. I felt the urge to write more about it, so I thought a post about agents and managing them would be a good follow-up. Our agents include: 200 user-managed agents running on Windows and Linux 100,000 Kubernetes pods created each month Every Jenkins agent runs on Java 21. The agents User-managed agents Users...

  Mark Schulz October 9, 2026
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  Reading CI Failures Across Pipelines, Not One Build at a Time

  Jenkins is good at explaining a single build. The console, the stage view and the test report all answer "what happened in build #247". On a busy controller, most CI questions are not about a single build: Five pipelines are red. Is that five problems or one? Which of them broke this morning, and which have been red since last week? Are builds getting...

  

  Anas Hassari October 5, 2026
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  Jenkins and AI Agents: The Trusted Engine for Faster Software Delivery

  The 2026 Reality Check By 2026, software development has crossed a threshold. AI coding assistants are no longer just suggesting lines of code: agentic systems can take on larger tasks, refactor existing code, open pull requests, and attempt to fix defects with less hands-on direction. That progress revived a familiar prediction: if AI can write and change software, perhaps traditional CI/CD systems will...

  

  Stefan Spieker October 1, 2026
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  Daily Life as a Jenkins Administrator

  Jenkins Kubernetes setup As a team, we introduced Jenkins Kubernetes for every user a few months ago. Our goal was to make it easy to get started with Jenkins — no need for your own agent. We prepared guides on how to use it, which tools are already included in the image used by the pod (maintained by us). A few nodes are always...

  Mark Schulz September 21, 2026
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  GSoC 2026 Final Blog: How It Was to Be a Contributor at Jenkins

  Hello everyone! I am Mallikarjun G D, and I have been a GSoC 2026 contributor for the project Continue: AI-Powered Chatbot for Quick Access to Jenkins Resources. Over the past few months, I have learnt a lot, not just about AI and Jenkins, but also about contributing to a large open-source project. So for my final GSoC blog, I wanted to share how...

  

  Mallikarjun G D September 11, 2026
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  Investigating Build Regressions From the Last Known-Good Build

  The following scenario is a case study. A Jenkins build fails in an integration test. The console contains a NoSuchMethodError, so the immediate task seems straightforward: find the incompatible dependency. Then someone points out that the last three builds failed too. Another developer asks whether the dependency change was already present in a successful build. The error is useful, but...

  Azeem Siddiqui September 10, 2026
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  GSoC 2026 Final term: AI Chatbot to Guide User Workflow

  Hi everyone 👋, I’m Daniele, the Google Summer of Code 2026 contributor who worked this summer on creating the AI Chatbot to Guide User Workflow plugin. The extended period of my project is coming to an end, and I want to share a bit about this brand-new plugin and my journey through GSoC. Index About the Project Second part of GSoC My contributions The plugin’s future Acknowledgements More about...

  

  Daniele Caldarigi September 8, 2026