Hi all,

The Jenkins Cloud Native special interest group
<https://jenkins.io/sigs/cloud-native/> has been dormant for about a year
since the offline meeting at Kubecon 2019 in Barcelona. There is a lot of
interest from the users about running Jenkins in cloud environments and,
specifically, in Kubernetes. We have recently started a series of "Jenkins
in Kubernetes" online meetups
<https://www.meetup.com/Jenkins-online-meetup/>, and we got positive
feedback and many follow-ups there. It would be great if we could recover
the SIG.

Previously the SIG was mostly focused on the deep Jenkins architecture
changes, including pluggable storage and architecture changes towards
stateless Jenkins. This is definitely a valiant goal which should be worked
on, but for the SIG it was a challenge to consolidate a critical mass of
contributors to push such deep surgery changes forward. I hope that we will
eventually get there, but the SIG format did not work well.


I would suggest to change the scope of the SIG and to refocus it on
use-cases for Jenkins end users and administrators:

   -

   Integrations with Kubernetes and other projects from the CNCF landscape
   -

   Managing Jenkins in Kubernetes: Helm charts, Jenkins operator,
   monitoring with Prometheus, etc.
   -

   Jenkins on Cloud providers (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, etc): Provisioning
   of agents, cloud storage, and other common use-cases
   -

   Jenkins FaaS Capabilities: Jenkinsfile Runner and similar engines
   -

   Integrations with cloud native CI/CD engines like Tekton and Jenkins X


Immediate projects the SIG would focus on: Kubernetes plugin ecosystem,
Jenkins Kubernetes Operator (JEP-219), Jenkinsfile Runner, External
Fingerprint Storage (GSoC 2020 project), "Jenkins on Kubernetes" meetup
follow-up discussions with speakers. We could add more projects if there
are active initiatives there and put them on the Jenkins roadmap
<https://www.jenkins.io/project/roadmap/>.

What do you think? I would appreciate any feedback and comments. If there
are multiple contributors interested, I am ready to go ahead and get the
SIG running again.

Thanks for your feedback,

Oleg

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