Jenkins Exploit Cryptocurrency mining malware

A few days ago, our alert system notified us that several of the servers of some clients had a totally abrupt load growth in the system, even in some cases a direct downtime occurred. After entering the systems, after a brief initial analysis of the Geko team, we detected that the systems had been compromised […]

Jenkins X is here to help you

Most probably you already know what Jenkins is and maybe you are already using it for years to help you to automate all kind of things, specially software development process with continuous integration and delivery. From mid 2018 we have another guy on the stage: Jenkins X. This is the first post of a series […]

Securing Jenkins access to AWS (part I)

Jenkins is an open source automation server used to accelerate the software delivery process and has become the de facto DevOps engine, specially for its scripted Jenkinsfile pipelines committed to source control. To accomplish its function, Jenkins needs to interface with some external systems, such as GitHub or, the reason for this article, AWS. One […]

Securing Jenkins access to AWS (part II)

Recommended setup If you followed the steps in my previous post, you have: IAM users than can only assume a role AWS access keys for those users stored in Jenkins (using AWS Credentials plugin) An MFA device assigned to each user A condition that forces MFA when assuming roles Example pipeline With all this, we […]

Meetup SpainClouds: GitFlow & GitOps plus LABS Jenkins X y Kubernetes

First virtual Meetup of SpainClouds At the end of last month we had the chance to participate in the first virtual meetup by spainclouds.com About 200 people registered at the meeting participated in an open session of experiences about ingress controller, backup systems for k8 and attended the speech that we, from Geko Cloud, gave […]

Jenkins X preview environments

This is the second post about Jenkins X of a series of posts that we will write. Some weeks ago we wrote an introductory post talking about what is Jenkins X and how can help you to deploy your application into a kubernetes cluster. This time we will talk about a Jenkins X feature called […]