Jenkins Platform SIG, 15 Jul 2022

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Jenkins platform special interest group meeting with topics including:

* Support for arm/v7 agent images (32 bit Arm)
* Progress on Require Java 11 (September LTS baseline will require Java 11)
* Java 17 support
* DevOps World and the Jenkins Contributor Summit

A

Welcome this is the jenkins platform special interest group. It's the 15th of july 2022. topics that I've got on the agenda, open action items uh installplugins.sh.

A

Require java, 11, java, 17 and devops world bruno: are there any other topics you want to be sure we get on the agenda.

B

uh No, I don't think so. I was thinking of course, of arm 32 and arm 64, but I think that's the subjective stage with just two small pr's. That's all.

A

Actually, let's, let's put it there, because because I think it's a good thing while we're here: let's do it so open pull, requests, open platform, related, pull, requests right.

A

So we've got an arm arm: 32, slash, v7, pull request to docker agents or requests to the docker agents repository.

B

Agent and uh joker inbound agent also.

A

Good all right yeah, so let's use that we can use some time here today to review those good all right, thanks anything else that you want to be sure that we're we review.

B

uh No thank you.

A

Okay, so so we've had some more some more activity. That's related to this first action item the plugin installation manager, docs had a pull request submitted to jenkins.io that described many different use cases and the many different use cases were were very helpful. We realized hey. These use cases would be helpful.

A

The plug-in installation manager tool, the maintenance team said hey the developer said: let's put this in the read me of the repository, so it gets maintained and now that installplugins.sh has been removed. That's all the more reason for that documentation to be updated. Unfortunately, it's not yet done yet, so we've got more work to do there, but progress progress is coming. This is one that we get questions. We just got a question on community.jenkins.io related to it more questions on community.jenkins.io.

A

Related to that topic so.

A

Any question there on that action item. No, I don't think okay, so the next step then was in 2.358.

A

2.350 and from 2.346.2.

A

So the lts and- and it's mentioned in the in the upgrade guide for 346.2 and the kubernetes operator team- found a way to to undo it because they were apparently short-term dependent on this script and and that's fine. They get to choose how they do it. But for me I I very much prefer that now that it's been 18 months since it was deprecated, let's get it off the list.

A

And that's all that I had on that topic.

A

So next topic, then, was open platform. Replated pull requests. So let's take a look in the docker agent repository docker here and I'll just go to docker dash agent okay. So this is the poll request that oh no.

A

Merge but not released, oh good, okay, so we just need a release of the agent and we don't have a release of the agent that includes these other things, either like the upgrade of min get okay.

A

So now, but you say the arm, 32 images were not that's odd. I thought we'd released more less than 10 days ago, just a minute.

B

Okay, my main order is wrong.

A

Well, let's, let's, let's look, we should be able to see the image on hub.

B

A

Jenkins jenkins dash agent: let's look go look at the tags that are the um oh dear.

A

No, where is my.

A

Okay, there's this one: how about agent there we go okay! So let's look at the tags here, so we we might expect to see something that had arm 32 in it.

B

Go ahead, it's yeah! It's for everybody, I think now. So yes, we have all the latest gdk 17 gta 11, all for debian, in fact, uh not of course, for alpine, because we still have some problems with the related version of java, but yes, even 17 and latest. There are now spotting uh supporting the arm. D7 attack.

A

Well, and- and I wanted to double check to see if there are so- if I look yes so, for instance, latest jdk 11 has arm v7, uh it thinks I'm clicking when I want to highlight and then even jdk, even jdk 17 preview, so you can run java 17 on a 32-bit arm. Now, yes, good all right and now we we do need to. This is a reminder. I've got an action item here.

A

um Let's put it up here, I guess interaction items, remove the preview label from jdk, 17 images.

A

Agent images we've already removed it or maybe repeat, remove the preview preview suffix, because it's it's already removed from the controller images, but not from the not from the agent images. Okay, hello, hey kevin okay, so this is great. We've got intel, 64., 32-bit arm 64-bit arm and system 390 all available as images that we're providing.

B

Yes, I've tried it with other architectures, but that didn't work. So I forget, you know ppc and so on that didn't work for various reasons linked to the java executable.

A

Yeah well and- and we've not had right now- we've not been willing to do a ppc uh ppc image because there's a bug in qemu that prevents us from publishing from the same location. We actually create the system 390 image on an intel architecture using qemu.

A

Okay, good, so this is this one looks good now you said that there was also a pull request to the inbound agent. I had we didn't check that one. So we look at docker inbound agent to be sure, that's been merged. I think she merged it. Yesterday, ah good okay,.

A

Yeah so yesterday, yeah you're, right, okay, now and I have to I have to be reminded of these- how they, how they behave. So this one, oh and here we go.

A

So we may let's just double check, so this should be under inbound agent.

A

We look inbound agent. We should see that the tags now include arm 32 bits there. It is arm v7. Is there good? Congratulations bruno? Yes, I'm pretty happy. Thank you mark all right so arm, oh so r, and that was I better get the exact text. It's arm slash, v7, okay,.

A

Arm b7 architecture is now available.

A

So I can run a docker-based agent on my tiny little raspberry pi's, that's cool! Yes,.

B

You can I've been running some for quite a while, but it was a custom one I built my stuff, but now I can just get rid of that and use the standalone. That's cool.

A

That that is that's that's very impressive. Thank you. Thanks very much all right anything else on platform related pull requests.

B

I don't have anything.

A

Okay, next topic require java 11., so 2.359 released. It also requires java 11, just as 232.358 did, and the next lts baseline uh will require java, 11 uh or and and support java 17.

A

So the thatch, the baseline selection, is coming in the next. I think it's the next two to four weeks see the calendar.

A

The uh the the epic on on jenkins.io is looking better and better all the time. Okay, so thanks special thanks to basil crowe and to to others who are working to upgrade dependencies to do all sorts of improvements that are helping us do a better job as we move forward any questions on java, 11.

B

I don't kid you.

A

Okay next topic, then java 17 support is looking good supported since since 2.357 and 2.3 is 46.1.

A

And we're now in the state of planning to upgrade one or more ci instances to jdk 17 of examples week, weekly dot, ci dot, jenkins, dot, io and possibly infra dot, ci dot, jenkins dot, io.

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Weekly is visible, publicly infra is but is not used for heavyweight activities. uh Infra is not visible publicly, but is used for heavyweight activities. So we think those are two good choices and the infra team's planning their upgrade any questions there.

A

No, I don't all right next topic, then was devops world, so we've got. This is september. 26-29.

A

In orlando and we're looking forward to a contributor summit on tuesday, the 27th, we'll I'm sure we will have platform topics there and look forward to having those good conversations, then, as a reminder to others bruno and I and john mark are going to be doing a contributing to open source workshop on wednesday.

A

uh Come spend two hours with us and learn how to submit your submit real improvements to jenkins plugins. We'll take you through live experiences, any other topics we should bring up today.

B

I don't have any cuttings, uh I don't have any myself right now.

A

All right, let's call our session done then thanks bruno thanks, kevin recording should be available in 24 hours or so.