From BCCD 3.0

Contents 1 Building jobs automatically 1.1 jenkins-job-builder 1.2 Equivalents 1.3 Tips 1.4 Bugs

Building jobs automatically

jenkins-job-builder

• Will try Jenkins Job Builder. Installs easily from deb package jenkins-job-builder
• Examples in documentation consist of unusable snippets. Actual full, working examples here
• Can define defaults stanzas that job-templates point to by name with a defaults attribute
• While it says it uses password authentication with Jenkins, the documentation says it is actually an API token
• Sample command: python3-jenkins-jobs update ~/svnroot/bccd-ng/branches/skylar/bccd-3.4.0-build_ng/jenkins/job_builder.yml

Equivalents

• Execute command: builders dictionary with shell
• Archive artifact: archive dictionary with artifact keys
• Child project: pipeline dictionary with projects list

Tips

• Escape literal { to pass to a shell with {{

Bugs

• url setting in ini does not build URLs with directories properly (i.e. http://localhost:8080 works, http://localhost:8080/jenkins does not)