I am looking for how to publish a Jenkins build output to Azure Dev Ops for the purpose of deployment.
All of our code is on TFS 2015 and the build definitions are in Jenkins.
We will be migrating to Azure Dev ops completely, but for now I just want to manage the deployment through Dev Ops. I will script the agent on each of the hosts and move the files to their correct locations.
Looking at the Azure Cli - there Publish Pipeline Artifacts
I can't use a service connection to Jenkins because the server is behind a firewall. I need to be able to publish from Jenkins to Azure Dev Ops.
Any creative ways to do this?
for example, you could create a nuget package (or any other package) from jenkins build and push it to the artifacts feed you create in azure devops. Next is to create a release pipeline with a trigger for Azure Artifacts (with enabled continuous integration trigger) for the latest package version.
here is an example on how to publish nuget packages from jenkins.
EDIT
be aware of the size limitations of Azure Artifacts. As per today, only 2 GB are free of charge.
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I have quite a few applications with source and binary code in Bitbucket repositories. Jenkins is my CI/CD platform which is locally installed. For the most part, Jenkins jobs simply pull binary files from the Bitbucket repo and deploy to target hosts (Windows). Our devs generally execute builds locally and push the source and binary files (.Net) to the repos. A few projects are npm or ant/maven builds. My CISO would like to integrate vulnerability scanning using JFrog Xray into the CI process. Therefore, I have several questions.
Will JFrog/Xray perform a scan as a build step without switching to Artifactory for version control?
Which version of JFrog/Xray do I need? Will the free version work?
Do I need to install JFrog/Xray locally, or can I use a hosted version?
Is there any documentation for my use case? I've reviewed JFrog's documentation, but most related to using Artifactory.
Is there an alternative to JFrog/Xray that would be better?
Nope, Xray without Artifactory never works
Artifactory does have the OSS version for Maven projects which is free that will be onprem but no Xray onprem, though you can refer to this link to create a free JFrog platform with Artifactory and Xray.
For local version which is onprem environment licensing is needed and for cloud you can go with the free versions available.
As you referred documents, Artifactory is needed for Xray to work.
I have a Git repository on the Azure Dev-ops server and use Jenkins for continuous integration build.
I want to know that how a specific branch like master Jenkins can automatically run the build and then notify the user via a shell log that the build was successful or not?
Microsoft seems to have the thing pretty well documented, Create a service hook for Azure DevOps Services and TFS with Jenkins
Set up the Jenkins job, set up the TFS / Azure DrevOps ServiceHook, off to the races.
We have it working fine for Jenkins 2.x and AzureDevOps on-prem. Best to use service accounts with limited necessary permissions on both sides.
Currently my On-premise company is using Team Foundation Server (TFS), it is doing multiple things like work tracking and build.
We brought Bitbucket to separate code repository, we still want to continue using TFS for work tracking. We are looking for any (opensource project examples) connectors or integrators or plugins somewhat similar to connect between Bitbucket & TFS . If there is any opensource project examples to connect these somewhat similar will try to tweak it.
Azure Pipelines, Azure DevOps Server, and TFS integrate with a number of version control systems. When you use any of these version control systems, you can configure a pipeline to build, test, and deploy your application. Please check Supported source repositories of Azure DevOps Server/TFS.
Bitbucket Cloud repository type is supported in Azure Pipelines, but not in on-premise Azure DevOps Server/TFS. As a workaround, you can use the Other Git or External Git repository type in on-premise Azure DevOps Server/TFS, to build repositories in Bitbucket.
I have a local Jenkins server running on one of my spare computers (win10). Note that it is not behind any sort of a server and hence is only available within my local network. I have set it up so that it does the continuous fetch from my remote git repo and builds the artifacts and archives them for a successful build. I would like to publish these archives to my AzureDevops Release pipeline. How do I do this? (And yes I have looked through all the tutorials but they assume that I have Jenkins running on a VM somewhere on the cloud).
So far I have had no luck with the tutorials on the web since I donot really have a URL to this instance of Jenkins since it is only available on my local network. I cannot really build these artifacts on a remote Jenkins server, so I am really restricted to using this solution for running the builds.
I am looking to have these archives that Jenkins builds be directly available within my Azure DevOps release pipeline, on every successful build. Thanks for the help!
So since nobody else has answered this I am going to detail what I ended up doing (maybe not the best of the approaches but it works for my setup, suggestions are welcome!).
To interface with the Azure DevOps platform from a local machine you will need to configure a self-hosted agent (based on your specific OS), which will allow you to trigger builds, archive and upload the build artifacts to the Azure DevOps platform. This way you also donot have to poll for SCM changes too (which I think is not that elegant sometimes).
1. So you will need to go through the setup as outlined here for you local self-hosted agent:
Windows: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/agents/v2-windows?view=azure-devops
Linux: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/agents/v2-linux?view=azure-devops
MacOS: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/agents/v2-osx?view=azure-devops
NOTE: I have chosen to run the agent as service on windows for my setup
2. Next setup your Jenkins build job how you normally would, with your usual repo access setup. Things to keep in mind are following:
Under "Build Triggers", select the Poll SCM option, but make sure that the schedule is blank, this will make sure that the trigger from your post-commit hook from the agent works. Example setup shown below:
Under "Post-build Actions", make sure that you are archiving the artifacts as required. Example shown below:
3. Now time to setup your project's "Jenkins Service Connection", this can be accessed from the Project Settings tab on the bottom left of you project view in Azure DevOps. Note that this basically helps you self-hosted agent to locate and communicate with the Jenkins instance running locally (or an other network accessible location!). Go under Pipelines -> Service Connections and a new service connection for Jenkins. Note that the trick here is to use the URL for the connection as seen by you local self-hosted agent, which means it can be just any IP (including localhost) that the agent can access normally. Username and password are the same as the ones you setup in Jenkins. Example shown below:
NOTE: You can try to do "Verify and Save" but it will throw an error, so ignore the error or just go ahead and "Save without verification". Also you will have to do this per project, unlike the self-hosted agent setup which is per machine.
4. Now you just need to configure your build pipeline to give jobs to the right agent and pointing to the right service end-point. Now under you build pipeline settings use the agent pool that has the self-hosted agent(s) which can access your build servers. And choose the Jenkins connection that you just created in the above step. The rest of the setup is identical to how you would normally setup your project's build pipeline. An example would be as follows:
NOTE: The key here is the correct "Job name" (this should be the same as the one you have setup in you Jenkins build server instance) and the correct "Jenkins service connection".
5. The rest is straight forward in the sense that you just now need to make sure that you have a step to "Download artifacts" (NOT necessary if you donot want the artifacts on the DevOps platform) & "Publish Artifacts" (this is needed for your release pipeline to see that build artifact and to trigger it too if you want), after your jenkins queue job step. Make sure to setup the correct job directories for download from you local self-hosted agent. Example setup for both the steps:
NOTE: If you are having trouble with the paths for download and publish refer to this link for predefined variables for the self-hosted agents: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/build/variables?view=azure-devops&tabs=yaml
6. Now in your release pipeline you should be able to add the artifact sources from you build pipeline. Example shown below:
Now you should be able to get the local artifacts in the cloud on the Azure DevOps platform, in case you cannot use the build agents provided by Microsoft for any reason!
What is the purpose of a build agent in continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment? Is this something that impacts all CI servers (e.g. Jenkins, TeamCity, TFS, etc.)
On the TeamCity license types page I noted that the professional server license, which is free, only includes three build agents.
https://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/buy/#license-type=new-license
The expression build agent basically describes an environment in which builds or jobs of the CI pipeline are run. There are multiple synonyms for this part of the CI infrastructure. TeamCity seems to define a build agent as an environment where one build at a time can run.
Jenkins would define the machine which runs builds as a slave with a (different) master machine that coordinates which builds runs where. Multiple builds can run on the same slave in Jenkins in different executor slots.
Another system using a build agent is a Team Foundation server which should be structured similarly to TeamCity's solution. There has already been a more detailed answer here.