I've successfully connected to a Bitbucket repository within my Jenkins job. My issue is that I haven't been able to find any information about how to access/use the files that the repository contains. I added an "Execute Shell" step after connecting the repo, but don't know where the files the repo contains are. I tried cd'ing into /NameOfRepo/NameOfSubfolder but it says the file/directory does not exist in the console output when I run the job. Where does Jenkins store files it has gained access to that live in a remote repository? Do I need to use shell commands to clone my repo to a specific location?
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I'd like the files generated by Jenkins script to be automatically copied into a given directory on the local network.
Is there a plugin or script for doing that ?
In my case it worked by using SCP in a build step "Execute shell". The remote server needs to be accessible via ssh.
If your artifacts are the result of a maven build, maybe a Nexus Repository Manager is what you are looking for. A simple mvn deploy would do the job.
I need to setup a build configuration in Jenkins so that whenever a build is triggered, I get my latest scripts from Gitlab and copy them to the target systems and run that script on the target.
I couldn't find any relevant info for integrating Gitlab to Jenkins. Are there any specific plugins that I could use?
I am using Jenkins version 2.158
Step by Step procedure for doing what you are looking for:
Add the location of the Script from GitLAB. (E.g.)
Run the script over the target machine.
While Building the job, you will get the code at the root (./) of the job's workspace. Copying and running the script over the target machine can be done by remote script executions. following are the cases we having in running script in the remote machine
Windows (jenkins) to windows - use psexec.exe
Windows (Jenkins) to linux - use plink.exe which is command line putty
Linux (Jenkins) to linux - use SCP and SSH
Linux to Windows - use ansible for windows.
E.g,.
$ scp script.sh remote_username#10.10.0.2:/remote/directory
$ ssh -t remote_username#10.10.0.2 /remote/directory/script.sh
All the best.
Integration between Git Repository Management (github, gitlab,bitbucket, etc) and Jenkins has the following steps :
Developer push some source code (java, php, nodejs, etc) to the Git Repository Management.
The Git Repository Management detects this event and notify to some public http endpoint in your Jenkins. Currently webhook is the most recommended way to implement this notification.
Jenkins receive the http post request(from bitbucket for example) and using some plugin or configurations , Jenkins try to determine or get the basic devops parameters like : branch name, commit author, commit message, technology, etc
Whit the extracted devops parameters, Jenkins launchs a preconfigured job. This job use the previously extracted values to build, compile, zip, install or to do whatever is necessary to startup your application.
If you want to implement this flow, check this post:
https://jrichardsz.github.io/devops/devops-with-git-and-jenkins-using-webhooks
Also, if you need. I will gladly to show you a basic integration using some git repository management and jenkins . Just contact me.
I have got my code files in bitbucket and have configured a jenkins build job to run where there is a change in the bitbucket repository. At the end of which it has to copy the files from the repo to a directory located at a production server from where the application is running.
Is there a away to copy the files from repo to a server using a script inputed to jenkins?
I asume you have the files in the workspace of the job. How about copying the files via the command line? If you want to do so, insert a batch block for windows nodes or a shell block for linux nodes and use
cp original_file new_file
You have 2 possibilites:
Run a slave on the production server
In this case you run a slave on the production server, which connects to your master jenkins. The slave has to be run under a user, which is able to write the directory, where you want to copy the files too.
2 Variations of this possibility:
You can execute the clone (checkout) of the bitbucket repository on the master and then use stash to make the files accessible on the slave, running on the production server (https://jenkins.io/doc/pipeline/steps/workflow-basic-steps/#stash-stash-some-files-to-be-used-later-in-the-build).
You run the whole pipeline on the slave, which is running on the production server, which means the production server needs access to bitbucket.
There are several possibilities to connect a slave to a master: https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Distributed+builds#Distributedbuilds-Differentwaysofstartingagents
Use remote copy possibilites
You copy the files with eg. scp in linux.
This has some security implications:
You have to add the password of the production to the jenkins credential store and pass it to the copy command
if using keys (recommended). You have to add the private key to the jenkins credential store and pass it to the command.
I want to use a config file provided by config file provider plugin in a pipeline project.
However when I run a build step inside a slave. I get a "PermissionDenied" exception, The same runs in master however.
So question is thats the best possible way to share files between master and slaves. I may not be able to Copy to slave plugin as there doesn't seem to be pipeline support.
If you want to share files between stages or nodes you can use the stash - unstash methods. see the example here
If you want to share files between builds you can use the archive method and the Copy Artifact Plugin
Can someone direct me here? I have a simple job configured in Jenkins on a WINDOWS environment (master and all slaves running on windows) and the job is supposed to run on a particular slave. When you build the job, the build log ( log.log) gets stored in ” %JENKINS_HOME%\jobs\\builds\%BUILD_NUMBER%\” on the master.
I do have a Jenkins workspace (which is required when you add a slave node) set on the slave for this job–where nothing gets stored when the job runs.
With this scenario, I would like to copy the build log (log.log file that’s available on the master) to a share drive. Please advise me the way to get this done. I have tried few plugins “Copy to slave”, “Copy Artifact Plugin” and ArtifactDeployer Plugin…I could not get them working to meet what I need.
Use a second build action with the execute batch option. Put the copy command there to copy the log to another location.
The following command kind-of works:
curl ${BUILD_URL}consoleFull -o ${TargetDir}/Log.txt
where
TargetDir="${WORKSPACE}/Directory/target"
BUILD_URL and WORKSPACE are set by Jenkins. Unfortunately Jenkins doesn't copy the whole log. I've tried consoleText and gotten the same result: partial logs files. :-(