Hi Everyone!

I would like to start this thread to discuss some opinions and new ideas 
with the community regarding fingerprints and tracing.

We have been working on the Jenkins fingerprint 
<https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/using/fingerprints/> engine, and we have 
made great progress so far. We have been able to make the Jenkins 
fingerprinting engine 'pluggable', which basically means that now the 
fingerprints created by Jenkins can be stored in the cloud, away from the 
local disk storage of Jenkins master. Currently we only have one plugin 
<https://github.com/jenkinsci/redis-fingerprint-storage-plugin> which can 
support this, which is powered by Redis.

One of the advantages we got out of this project was the ability to track 
fingerprints across instances. What this can help in achieving is tracking 
usage of artifacts, credentials, docker images, etc. across instances of 
Jenkins. We can leverage our current project to provide such 
functionalities. But doing so only makes sense if there is some need for 
it. Also, there can be other potential use cases that we may have missed. 
We would love to discuss ideas around this, which can benefit the Jenkins 
community.

More information about the project can be found on the project page 
<https://www.jenkins.io/projects/gsoc/2020/projects/external-fingerprint-storage/>
 
and blog 
<https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2020/06/27/external-fingerprint-storage/>.

We would deeply appreciate suggestions and comments on this topic from the 
developer community, and potential areas where you think this project can 
help you or other Jenkins users.

Best Regards,
Sumit

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