I have a Jenkins project with a declarative pipeline defined in a JenkinsFile stored in a SCM. I use the "Pipeline script from SCM" option.
Sometimes if something fails I do a quick fix in the jenkins workspace and rerun the pipeline starting at a specific stage. This is working nicely.
There are cases in which I need to update the JenkinsFile and then do a 'restart at stage' with the updated Jenkins file. However, I can't find the JenkinsFile anywhere in the workspace folder. I need to know the location so I can do a quick fix and then restart the pipeline. Where is the JenkinsFile located?
See "Replay" Pipeline Runs with Modifications:
The "Replay" feature allows for quick modifications and execution of an existing Pipeline without changing the Pipeline configuration or creating a new commit.
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Sometimes it is not possible (yet) to put Jenkinsfile into git repository.
I think it was possible to edit/define Jenkinsfile content just within job,
but with latest Jenkins, I cannot find such support.
Now I see only filename configuration.
OK, just be sure to select usual Pipeline project and not Multibranch pipeline
I am using jenkins pipeline and my Jenkinsfile has several stages and jobs. Is there any way to run specific job outside of jenkins pipeline ?
Example: Let's say one of the stage is to do "scp build artifacts to remote location". For some reason this got failed and if at all I want to run rest of the jobs manually out of jenkins pipeline, how can I do that ?
I am least interested to invoke a new build. So can we run remaining jobs after failure outside of jenkins pipeline manually ?
You may be able to do it by writing unit test cases to your Jenkinsfile and test them as a maven project. This may or may not solve your problem without looking at your entire problem but if you can reorganize your logic to achieve 100% test coverage then it is doable. You can find more information about writing test cases of Jenkins pipelines here
If use a multibranch pipeline in Jenkins, I want to have a build for every specific branch that is made inside my code repo. This works like a charm. But I don't want to provide a Jenkinsfile inside my code repo. Instead I want to define a different CI repo which is providing my CI pipeline scripts.
The problem is that the usual config is not containing the scm option like in the normal config.
Normal pipeline config:
Multibranch pipeline config:
Can somebody tell me how to separate the Jenkinsfile from my source code using a multibranch pipeline?
Just in case someone stunmles over the same problem,
there is a Jenkins plug-in which brings remote Jenkinsfiles for mutlibranch pipleines: https://plugins.jenkins.io/remote-file/
I created a Jenkinsfile and pushed it to master branch.
In Jenkins pipeline job, I selected Pipeline Script from SCM and filled all other details.
When I build this job, it runs properly as expected.
Console log says 'Obtained Jenkinsfile from git <repo url>'.
I am using windows. Jenkins has a folder .jenkins in C:\Users\<Username>.
I looked in workspace folder which is empty until Jenkinsfile started downloading the repo.
Where is Jenkins storing the Jenkinsfile it downloaded in the very first step?
The output on the console log should show the directory where the Jenkinsfile was checked out. It is usually named somthing similar to what the workspace is called, but with an #script or something on the end.
I am new to Jenkins 2 and pipeline feature, and I am setting up a project to use the Jenkinsfile for pipeline.
I can see there are 3 workspace created:
project-xxxxx
project-xxxxx#script
project-xxxxx#tmp
When I run tox in pipeline, it complains about no tox.ini found, I suspect it's in side folder project-xxxxx which is empty, but the project files are inside project-xxxxx#script
Should I use checkout scm to populate the workspace with project files? Or am I suppose to use the project files in project-xxxxx#script and how do I do it properly?
Can someone please explain to me how those 3 folders work together?
You should not have to worry about the workspace in a pipeline. You start the build, you get a workspace and anything you checkout out or copy into it should be there.
How do you start the pipeline? Inline script, from scm or via a Multi-Branch or similar job type?
How are you getting files into your workspace?