jenkins complicated buildflow, is it possible? - jenkins

Question

I would like to have a Jenkins build flow that looks like this.
After the build is triggered all slaves run the same job in parallel (a setup job).
If any slaves fail this job they should not continue on.
For the all the slaves that to pass that job, they should grab a job out of a pool of jobs that need to be completed. And once a slave completes a job they should go back to complete another job in the pool.
I have only started working with Jenkins a few weeks ago and they way I have it setup now is as each job is picked up by a slave they have to run the setup job first. This really slows down build times because I have about 30 jobs and the setup takes ~2 minutes.
I am using Jenkins as an automated testing platform and all the jobs in the job pool can run independently of each other. I have 5 slaves currently and ~30 jobs.

Answer 1

The following should do the trick:
def jobPool = new ArrayDeque()
jobPool.add({
echo "Doing stuff on ${env.NODE_NAME}"
});
jobPool.add({
echo "Doing other stuff on ${env.NODE_NAME}, a little slower"
sleep 4
});
jobPool.add({
echo "Doing more stuff on ${env.NODE_NAME}, even slower"
sleep 10
});
jobPool.add({
echo "Doing stuff quick on ${env.NODE_NAME}"
});
jobPool.add({
echo "Doing stuff quicker on ${env.NODE_NAME}"
});
def par = [:]
for (x in ["master", "urban"]) {
def nodeName = x; // needed due to variable scoping
par[nodeName] = {
node (nodeName) {
try {
echo "Doing setup on ${env.NODE_NAME}!"
// Do you're setup
echo "Done with setup"
} catch (Exception e) {
echo "Will not use this node as it failed setup!"
return;
}
while (true) {
// echo "${jobPool.size()}"
def subTask = jobPool.poll()
//echo "${jobPool.size()} ${subTask}"
if (subTask == null) {
break;
}
// Might wan't try catch around the next line if you wan't to continue if a job fails
subTask()
}
}
}
}
parallel par
if (!jobPool.isEmpty()) {
error "Not all tasks was done!"
}
Simply add your "job pool jobs" to the jobPool variable and modify the setup part.

Answer 2

It seems like you want separate stages in the same job. This is made much easier in jenkins 2's pipelines. There are some pictures here:
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Pipeline+Stage+View+Plugin
the [groovy] code ends up looking like this:
node {
stage 'Checkout'
svn 'https://svn.mycorp/trunk/'
stage 'Build'
sh 'make all'
stage 'Test'
sh 'make test'
}