Hi Great to see work being done on pluggable storage.
Personally I’ve never used the fingerprinting feature, but I assume / hope there’s people out there who are able to chime in. Thanks Tim On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 at 15:21, Sumit Sarin <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/0f7c5550-e3d4-4262-92a0-4f5154389f37o%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/0f7c5550-e3d4-4262-92a0-4f5154389f37o%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAH-3BiceXG9-zhZ9BioLZSA_EH_9E4qC3E_ns-s_c65JvOeaiw%40mail.gmail.com.
