i want to do release management with Jenkins but I'm confused. which artifactory should i use. Is there any opensource artifactory is there to do release management process through jenkins.I'm trying for the past month.
There is an open source version of "Artifactory" which you could use (https://bintray.com/jfrog/product/JFrog-Artifactory-Oss/view). As an alternative you can check out Nexus from sonatype: https://www.sonatype.com/nexus-repository-oss
If you don't want to install programs you can also go with a file based repository on a server. Whatever you like :)
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I develop mostly desktop apps and class libraries, and I am struggling to find an way to host them using pipeline automation.
I know I can push them to a UNC, but then people need to know that path to find them. It works, but is not very user friendly.
What I would like is a way to host them on DevOps Server, like GitHub. On GitHub there is a Release section that you can go to and download the binaries of a project. I know Azure DevOps is geared toward webapps, but has anyone found a way to use build/release pipelines to automate the hosting of binary files?
I think what you are looking for is the Atifacts which is under the Test Plans in your project in Azure DevOps.
You can publish and download your binaries very easily here. Create a Feed and connect to it with any kinds of packages, including built in ones like NuGet and Maven, or you can customize it which called Universal packages in it.
You may find more useful information at Azure Artifacts documentation, learn what is Azure Artifacts and how you can publish and download you binaries via the CLI tool.
I am using Free Style Projects (in Jenkins) to schedule a regression test.
1. Get Source From BitBucket
2. Execute Windows Batch Command.
Earlier we are allowed to upload the jar files in Bitbucket. So we did not face any issue. Now Presently due to some changes in the process, we are not allowed to upload binaries which is affecting to upload jars in the Bitbucket.
Now, They gave given the artifactory url to set up for Maven. But we don't have any Maven projects.
It seems that artifactory is getting populated when it is hosted in the local. But we wanted to use the artifactory which is shared..
Can any one let me know the set up for free style project and the artifactory hosted in other machine and we have only URL.
Thanks
Here is documentation:
https://www.jfrog.com/confluence/display/RTF/Jenkins+Artifactory+Plug-in
I recommend to use Maven Project.
Is there an easy way to publish non-Maven artifacts to a generic repository on Bintray from a Jenkins job? I've been reading through Deploying Maven and Gradle snapshots to OJO but that applies to Maven-compatible artifacts / Maven repositories only.
I'm aware that I could use the Bintray REST API, but that's a bit too low-level for my taste. I'm wondering if there's something for Jenkins like the Artifactory Plugin, but for use with Bintray.
The closest thing I've found so far is a Bintray REST API wrapper like this Perl module, but I don't like that either as I'd need to install the module on all Jenkins nodes then.
For Bintray, there is Bintray Java Client. We are going to release the new version, which supports file upload and signing in the following week or so.
I'm wondering if there is an easy way to "publish" p2 update sites in Jenkins (built with Tycho) so that they can easily be accessed in downstreams jobs? Currently I'm doing it semi-manually using Jenkins support for copying artifacts between jobs, and then specifying a repository-mirror element in a job-specific settings.xml which refers to the artifacts copied into the job, but this is all a little tricky and requires configuring jobs and build settings in a number of different places.
Is there any nicer way short of using an external solution such as Artifactory?
The only solution involving a repository manager that I am aware of is to use a Nexus and the Unzip Plug-in. (Disclaimer: The Unzip Plug-in is provided by the Tycho project, of which I am a committer.)
With such a setup, you could have one job deploy an update site to Nexus, and the next job use the update site via the unzip URL of the deployed site. Example: If the site was deployed under the GAV project.abc:site:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT, you could then access it via http://<nexus>/content/repositories/<unzip-repo-name>/project/abc/site/1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/site-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT-unzip/.
Note that you are slightly less flexible with such a setup that with what you have set up now: You need to have a version number for what your upstream project is building, so this may become tricky if you have multiple feature branches developing towards the same release version.
If you don't need this, you have the benefit of getting a portable build of your downstream project, i.e. developers build the project in the same way as your Jenkins does.
I'm trying to setup Artifactory(free version) and Hudson to deploy artifacts.
The main stuff already works, i can deploy to Artifactory via Hudson. Using the Artifactory Hudson Plugin with generic deployment.
I am also able to browse the deployed stuff via the Tree & Simple Browser.
What not works correctly is the Build Browser, it does show everything except the artifacts deployed by the build. In the published modules view it should show all artifacts, but the tables are just greyed out for me.
Example how it should look:
Link to the official Jfrog Artifactory demo repository
Does anyone know if this view is maybe a pro feature, or any other tips how to resolve this problem?
The build integration feature is limited in the OSS version. You need the Pro version to get the full deal.
I've used the description setter plugin https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Description+Setter+Plugin . In my case i take the last revision and put a link to the artifact in artifactory. In this way on every build i can see a direct link to the artifact changing the path like you want.