This year, the Jenkins Contributor Awards will be run by the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) along with many other CDF Community Awards. The nominations are currently open and are being accepted using GitHub issues to make the process more transparent. Any contributor is eligible this time around! The deadline to nominate someone is May 14, 2021, and voting will open in May. Nominate contributors or vote with reactions/comments for all three Jenkins awards: Most Valuable Jenkins Contributor Most Valuable Jenkins Advocate Jenkins Security MVP The winners will be announced at cdCon 2021, where we’re also co-locating the Jenkins Contributor Summit on June 25, 2021! You can also nominate Jenkins community members for global awards like "Top CDF Ambassador" or "Top GitOps Evangelist"! For all CDF Community Awards and more details, visit the CDF Award Page.

Hear ye! Hear ye! Jenkins Community, cdCon 2021 (the Continuous Delivery Foundation’s annual flagship event) is happening June 23-24 and its call for papers is open! This is your chance to share what you’ve been doing with Jenkins. Are you building something cool? Using it to solve real-world problems? Are you making things fast? Secure? Or maybe you’re a contributor and want to share what’s new. In all cases, we want to hear from you! Submit your talk for cdCon 2021 to be part of the conversation driving the future of software delivery for technology teams, enterprise leadership, and open-source communities. Submission Deadlines Early-Bird Deadline Friday, February 19 by 11:59 PM PST Final Deadline Friday, March 5 at 11:59 PM PST Topics Here are the suggested tracks: Continuous Delivery Ecosystem This track spans the entire Continuous Delivery ecosystem, from workflow orchestration, configuration management, testing, security, release automation, deployment strategies, developer experience, and more. Advanced Delivery Techniques For talks on the very cutting edge of continuous delivery and emerging technology, for example, progressive delivery, observability, and MLOps. GitOps & Cloud-Native CD Submit to this track for talks related to continuous delivery involving containers, Kubernetes, and cloud*native technologies. This includes GitOps, cloud-native CD pipelines, chatops, best practices, etc. Continuous Delivery in Action This track is for showcasing real-world continuous delivery addressing challenges in specific domains e.g. fintech, embedded, healthcare, retail, etc. Talks may cover topics such as governance, compliance, security, etc. Leadership Track Talks for leaders and decision-makers on topics such as measuring DevOps, build vs buy, scaling, culture, security, FinOps, and developer productivity. Community Track There is more to open source than code contributions. This track covers topics such as growing open source project communities, diversity & inclusion, measuring community health, project roadmaps, and any other topic around sustaining open source and open source communities. Singular project focus and/or interoperability between: Jenkins Jenkins X Ortelius Spinnaker Screwdriver Tekton Other – e.g. Keptn, Flagger, Argo, Flux View all tracks and read CFP details. We look forward to reading your proposal! Submit it here

The Jenkins project has been around for over fifteen years and is the defacto platform for CI/CD. One of the reasons it continues to be so ubiquitous is that Jenkins constantly evolves and offers flexibility to integrate other tools that work well for your solution. At CDCon, on October 7-8, there are two particular Jenkins talks that will focus on new directions that the Jenkins platform is evolving too and getting better and better for users. Heard of JCasC and Not Sure Where to Start? Let me Help You! Configuration as code is a best practice for your CI/CD setup as it makes the complex process of setting up Jenkins simpler and more reproducible. Jenkins Configuration as Code (JCasc) enables Jenkins users to define the whole configuration as a simple, plain text YAML syntax. With JCasc, setting up a new Jenkins controller is easier than ever before. To get started with JCasC some initial effort is required. This talk walks you through a basic setup for easily spinning up new Jenkins instances. October 7 at 2:20 PM PST Speaker: Ewelina Wilkosz, Eficode Ewelina W is passionate about making sure that her customers' software is being built, tested and released in the best possible way. And, most importantly, that software developers don’t hate the process. Ewelina has been involved in Jenkins Configuration as Code plugin development from the very beginning. This is a must-see talk where Ewelina will also share some tips and tricks. The talk will feature using Docker, Jenkins and GitHub Actions as a quick way to build… Jenkins! Bridging the Gap with Tekton-client-plugin for Jenkins Tekton provides Kubernetes-native CI/CD building blocks. It enables users to take full advantage of cloud-native features around scalability and high availability. Jenkins flexibility enables integration with Tekton. This talk showcases the new tekton-client-plugin for Jenkins that enables Jenkins to interact with Tekton pipelines on a Kubernetes cluster. Tekton and Jenkins are both CDF projects and this talk highlights the first steps towards better Tekton and Jenkins interoperability, a key goal of the CD Foundation. October 7 at 11:40 AM PST Speaker: Vibhav Bobade, Red Hat Register for CDCon Both these talks showcase the ultimate flexibility and power of the Jenkins platform and how it continues to evolve to meet the challenges of modern-day CI/CD. Don’t miss out; register for CDCon to attend. CDCon has pledged to donate 100% of the proceeds received from CDCon 2020 registration to charitable causes: Black Girls Code, Women Who Code and the CDF Diversity Fund. Registrants indicate which charitable fund they want their 25 USD registration fees to go to during registration. If you can’t afford the registration cost, please apply for the diversity scholarship.