I am designing a setup to run a python script on a windows machine remotely. I am planning to install python and Jenkins as a windows service on this machine (alternatively with docker). The intention is that multiple users will be able to send a request to a Jenkins API endpoint and this will trigger the same build that runs a shell command and run that python script. Master and node pcs are in a company network so security would not be an issue in the first place.
I would like to know the possibility of doing this as I planned and I appreciate any guidance. Thanks in advance.
It's possible.
You can introduce with python api reference
https://python-jenkins.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
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Currently, I am working in a quality process so as to ensure that the code is acceptable. For that, I'm integrating Jenkins, SonarQube and GitLab, which are running in different servers (actually they are in different docker containers).
The idea is to check with SonarQube everytime the code is pushed against GitLab and block commits, merges, and so on, whether SonarQube has not passed.
I have already integrated Jenkins with SonarQube, but Jenkins checks the code inside his workspace, so imagine a situation where a developer in his laptop needs to push his changes.
My conceptual question is simple: Is it possible to integrate these technologies in order to do this? And, if the question is yes, which steps are necessary?
PD: I don't need to see code, configuration files,and so on. I just need something like:
Configure SonarQube to work with Jenkins
Do an script so as to copy that file in that folder,
...
First, in docker means each tool is in its own container.
They only need to see each other through the network, which is where a Docker Engine in Swarm mode comes in.
Second "configure Jenkins to work with SonarQube"... that is what I have done in my shop, and there isn't much to it.
Once the Jenkins SonarQube plugin is installed, and the address for the SonarQube server entered, you can configure your job and call sonar (for instance with maven: $SONAR_MAVEN_GOAL -Dsonar.host.url=$SONAR_HOST_URL)
The analysis done in the Jenkins workspace will then be published in the SonarQube server.
A swarm server is the more modern version of this 2015 docker-compose.yml file from the marcelbirkner/docker-ci-tool-stack project.
The idea remains the same though: each element is isolated in its own container.
I haven't tried It myself but https://gitlab.talanlabs.com/gabriel-allaigre/sonar-gitlab-plugin could be interesting in your setup.
I am new to Jenkins, just finish to configure my first build. My question how can I run Jenkins build from my pc? I mean via command line or some script or java code, I just need to trigger it. Where do I start?
Try reading the documentation about consuming jenkins API, see the examples using curl CLI tool.
Also here's a Java API Client example for you to inspect.
I have a situation where I need to run a clean up script written in powershell on Multiple servers , say around 100 windows servers.
How do I accomplish this ?. Doing thru SSH would be cumbersome I believe . I am looking for a better way to configure the Jenkins job to get this task done.
Regards
Raj
First Solution
Install a Jenkins agent on all your Windows machines
Affect the same label on all these Windows nodes
Next, you have to install the Matrix Project plugin and create a multi-configuration job.
You have to configure the matrix to run your job on the specific label:
This job will execute your Powershell maintenance script on all the Windows nodes.
Here is a screen copy of a similar maintenance job I'm running on my CentOS nodes:
Second solution (not tested)
The second solution (using OpenSSL) is to execute your Powershell script remotely:
https://hodgkins.io/automating-with-jenkins-and-powershell-on-windows-part-2
I'm new to Jenkins, and I like to know if it is possible to have one Jenkins server to deploy / update code on multiple web servers.
Currently, I have two web servers, which are using python Fabric for deployment.
Any good tutorials, will be greatly welcomed.
One solution could be to declare your web servers as slave nodes.
First thing, give jenkins credentials to your servers (login/password or ssh login+private key or certificate. This can be configured in the "Manage credentials" menu
Then configure the slave nodes. Read the doc
Then, create a multi-configuration job. First you have to install the matrix-project plugin. This will allow you to send the same deployment intructions to both your servers at once
Since you are already using Fabic for deployment, I would suggest installing Fabric on the Jenkins master and have Jenkins kick off the Fabric commands to deploy to the remote servers. You could set up the hostnames or IPs of the remote servers as parameters to the build and just have shell commands that iterate over them and run the Fabric commands. You can take this a step further and have the same job deploy to dev/test/prod just by using a different set of hosts.
I would not make the webservers slave nodes. Reserve slave nodes for build jobs. For example, if you need to build a windows application, you will need a windows Jenkins slave. IF you have a problem with installing Fabric on your Jenkins master, you could create a slave node that is responsible for running Fabric deploys and force anything that runs a fabric command to use that slave. I feel like this is overly complex but if you have a ton of builds on your master, you might want to go this route.
I want to build my maven project in Jenkins and copy all the the jar files to a remote Unix machine.
Also I want to connect to a LDAP data Store and start the services and test if the services are up and running
Basically I want to do the following tasks after my project is successfully build in Jenkins:-
1)Copy current version of my project to designated machine and location
2)Copy configure to connect to a designated integration test DS
3)Start the services in my project
4)Test that it is running.
Can I achieve this by Publish over SSH plugin provided in jenkins??
Or Shall I create some scripts which can automate the above tasks.The reason I am asking this is because I am not very familiar with Jenkins and Unix scripting.
Is there any good approach to do this task.
Thanks in advance.
Ansia
The Publish over SSH plugin will allow you copy files to remote server and execute arbitrary commands on the remote server.
Question is - do you know how you would achieve the following on the remote server?
2)Copy configure to connect to a designated integration test DS
3)Start the services in my project
4)Test that it is running
If yes, just enter those commands into Publish over SSH configuration. Or provide a script to be executed.
If you don't know how to achieve that, then that's a separate question.
Yes, you can use the publish over ssh plugin to copy the jars, and execute a script which launches your services. Take a look here to see how to launch a script "in the background" so it does not get killed when the session ends or to avoid blocking the Jenkins build by making it wait for the script to finish executing
Can't say much about LDAP as I haven't used it but depending on your needs I guess you could create a basic helper-jar with spring-ldap or any other similar library.