Annual Report 2023

It is our pleasure to share the Continuous Delivery Foundation 2023 Annual Report which aims to highlight the achievements of our community and our projects and summarize the key initiatives driven by the community.

The report captures some of the key steps our community took to make Continuous Delivery accessible and drive the future of software delivery.

🇯🇵 Read the Japanese version (PDF) of the CD Foundation Annual Report, translated by The Linux Foundation Japan. 日本語版はこちら

The eight active CDF open source projects have been hard at work. Here are their highlights for 2023:

CDEvents

• CDEvents supported by Jenkins, Spinnaker, Testkube, Tekton. Argo, Flux, Harbor and Guac in progress
• Go and Java SDKs enhanced, along with a PoC for the visualization of CDEvents. Python, Rust and .NET SDKs upcoming
• In the spec: incident, test and artifact-signed events. A more powerful way to connect events with each other is being developed
• Collaboration and communication around CDEvents have really taken off, such as in CNCF TAGs, OpenSSF, CNOE.io, VSMI, End-user blogs, KubeCon, Open-Source Summit
• CDEvents project governance is being formalized

Jenkins

• Jenkins Contributor Spotlight site is now live. Meet the people shaping the future of Jenkins as we showcase the top contributors.
• User experience has improved with new themes, icons, menus, forms, and buttons.  Jenkins now supports: 
  • dark mode and has a more modern look and feel
  • Java 21 in addition to Java 11 and Java 17 and ensuring a clear path for compatibility with future Java versions.
• Plugin health score is now available on plugins.jenkins.io for each Jenkins plugin.  Plugin maintainers can use the score to guide their improvements. Plugin users can use the score to select plugins that are actively maintained
• Jenkins infrastructure team has successfully reduced Jenkins infrastructure costs even while the worldwide Jenkins job count has increased.  They have recruited new infrastructure sponsors like DigitalOcean and Cloudflare and have found ways to more effectively use donations from long-time sponsors like the Continuous Delivery Foundation, CloudBees, JFrog, and Microsoft
• New contributors have been welcomed to the project through community projects, including:
  • Google Summer of Code (final reports one, two, three, four)
  • Hacktoberfest (over 400 pull requests merged, over 80 new contributors).

Screwdriver

• 322+ Pull Requests merged in 2023
• Usability Improvements
  • Build Artifact viewer can now display HTML pages that use query parameters for pages.
  • Added User Settings page for managing user preferences such as the job name width in the Pipeline build workflow graph.
  • Added Pipeline Metrics for Templates. This enables Template owners to track the usage of their templates.  
  • Multi-workspace support for Slack notification enables build pipelines to publish notifications to multiple Slack workspaces.
• Builds
  • Build pods expose more metadata as Kubernetes labels for metric collection.
  • Added a feature to group Screwdriver k8s build clusters which enables SD admins to manage on-prem and cloud clusters efficiently.
  • Added Redis job-lock for builds to prevent duplicate scheduling of periodic jobs.
• Internals: Node.js upgraded to v18 and Ember.js upgraded to v4.x

Hacktoberfest and GSoC

The CD Foundation’s projects participated in Hacktoberfest for the fourth year in a row and the Jenkins project was Google Summer of Code mentor organization once again in 2023 for their seventh year (and will be again next year).

Training and Certification

A new training and a new SkillCred are now available for Tekton thanks to the project’s community and Linux Foundation Training and Certification.

New Members

This year, the CD Foundation welcomed TestKube as a new members, for a total of 29 members.

Continuous Spotlight

At the end of the year, the CDF launched a new initiative to highlight its wonderful community members individually.