I've got job that builds jar artifact
In other jobs I want to use this artifact.
As I understand there is a plugin called "Copy artifact plugin" but it copies file.
I don't want to have copy of this artifact in every job I created, I want to pass reference to this artifact.
Is it possible?
Thanks!
This is not technically feasible in situation with multiple slaves. So I believe there is no such functionality in any Jenkins plugin.
You have a choice to even:
Force second job to run on master and calculate artifact file path
from root path configured in Jenkins settings, $JOB_NAME,
$BUILD_NUMBER, or
Upload artifact to an external artifacts repository and later
reference it, or
Save artifacts in a common shared folder accessible from every node.
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Problem 1 :
My requirement here is deploying the artifacts which are created during a build should be uploaded to a JFROG repository with a custom folder structure.
Eg. For a Jenkins build number 1, the folder should be named '1' and inside that, all the artifacts of that build should be stored and for build number 2, all artifacts of that build should be stored under the folder named '2'.
Problem 2:
Here Iam having a number of parallel and sequential jobs, So, the artifacts created for one job would be required for another job ,Hence that also need to be pulled from the respective custom folder which we created above.
Eg. Job 2 need artifacts of job 1 to get the build successful.
Build is done using Jenkins pipeline script.
We can upload the artifacts to the Artifactory repo based on required layouts using custom layouts. For standard repository type, we need to use the built-in standard layouts so that even there wont be any issues while resolving the artifacts as dependency from the client (mvn , gradle, etc).
But if you use a custom layout then the folder would be created based on your requirement then while resolving the artifacts as dependency from the client (mvn , gradle, etc) you might face issues.
Below is the Artifactory repository layouts wiki page for more details:
https://www.jfrog.com/confluence/display/JFROG/Repository+Layouts
There is a job controlled by Development team which built in a different node. I am on Testing team who want to take the artifacts and deploy on test device.
I can see those Artifacts from dev are stored in some path in dev's node. Does it means it must first archived in Jenkins master before I can copy it to my job?
I am using Copy Artifact plugin and constantly getting the error
Failed to copy artifacts from <dev-job> with filter: <path-in-dev-node>
*Some newbie question since i just moved from TeamCity
You probably want to use: Copy Artifact plugin.
Adds a build step to copy artifacts from another project.
Consider also, the Jenkins post-buid step "Archive the artifacts".
If you copy from the other job's workspace, what happens if another job is in progress or the workspace is wiped? That step copies them from the node to the master and stores a copy along with the build logs, etc. That makes them available via the UI as long as the build logs remain. It can take up space tho.
If you do use archive artifacts, consider using the system property jenkins.model.Jenkins.buildsDir to store all the build logs (and artifacts) outside of the jobs config directory. Some downtime and work required to separate the two (config / logs) .
You may also want to consider using a proper repository manager (Nexus / artifactory)
Finally, you may want to learn about using a Jenkins pipeline rather the relying on chained jobs, triggers or users and so forth. Why? 'cos it's much more controlled and easier to maintain.
ps: I'm not a huge fan of artifactDeployer, but it may work for you.
pps: you may want to review this in depth answer: Jenkis downstream job fails to find upstream artifacts
I am running my wedriverio(selenium wrapper in javascript) tests on Jenkins
After each build the jenkins creates and attaches artifacts which is taking very long time (the test cases complete in 2 minutes, but the artifact steps take about 1 hr).
I also noticed that artifact is allure-report.zip
Is there any significance of this artifact if I already have console logs and allure-reports generated?
How to not generate and attach artifact after each build?
Jenkins has no control over the artifacts being created after starting a build via the execute shell command. The build itself is what creates artifacts. Parts of the build process that can also create artifacts are post-build actions such running tests or plugins.
I suggest you familiarize yourself with your Jenkins job to locate what creates the allure_report.zip file.
With Jenkins you can control which artifacts you want to preserve and make available easily on the UI via the Archive the artifacts in Post-build Actions. This does not create the artifacts. It simply tags and archives them as something special to be available outside of the workspace. If this is the step you think is slow (attaching the generated allure_report.zip file), you can remove it from the list of files to archive.
I would like to share byproducts of one jenkins job, with another one that run after.
I am aware that I can set "use custom workspace", but that would merge the jobs together; which is not what I want. I just need to move few files in a location, that are read by the next job.
So far I can't find out how you actually tell Jenkins jobs to look for a specific folder; since it does not have a concept of file system, beyond what is going on in the job workspace folder.
Is there a way to access the host file system, or declare a shared folder inside jenkins (like in the main workspace folder, which contains all the other jobs?), so I can copy and read files in it, from different jobs?
Where possible I would like to avoid plugins and extras; I would like to use what is included with Jenkins base.
I realize you want to avoid plugins, but the Jenkins-y way to accomplish this is to use the Copy Artifacts plugin, which does exactly what you want.
There are a variety of problems that you may run into when trying to manage the filesystem yourself. (How do you publish to a common location when running on different build nodes? How do you handle unsuccessful builds?) This solution uses Jenkins to track builds and artifacts. In the absence of a separate artifact repository, its a lot better than trying to manage it yourself.
To use Copy Artifacts:
As a Post-Build step, choose "Archive Artifacts" in the first job and enter the path(s) to the generated files.
Then in the second job, add a "Copy Artifacts from another project" build step to grab some or all files marked as artifacts in your first job. (By default, Jenkins will re-create the paths of the generated files in the second job's workspace, which may or may not be what you want, but you can change this behavior.)
Configure the Jenkins to run a Maven build, and deploy your artifacts with "mvn clean deploy" This will push it to an "artifact server" which you probably have, or if not, need to add / configure.
Then in your downstream job, also a Maven job, you configure it to depend on the same artifact that was published in the upstream job. This will trigger a download of the artifact from the artifact server and make it available to the build.
I'm running a jenkins job on a slave and i want to store the generated artifacts in the server.Since the job is currently running on the slave the artifacts are also created there.
I tried using post build actions --->archive the artifacts.But it throws the following build error
ERROR: No artifacts found that match the file pattern "**/*.gz". Configuration error?
ERROR: '**/*.gz' doesn't match anything: '**' exists but not '**/*.gz'
Any help in this regards is highly appreciated.
Sounds like Copy To Slave Plugin is what you need
It can copy to slave (before build) and from slave (after build)
Copy files back to master node:
To activate this plugin for a given job, simply check the Copy files back to the job's workspace on the master node checkbox in the Post-build Actions section of the job. You then get the same two fields as for the Copy files to slave node before building section (note that label in the screenshot is old):
if you want to copy artifacts from JobA to the workspace of some other Job, you can do it using the Copy Artifact Plugin which is very simple to understand.
In case you just want to archive the artifacts already in JobA, then you are already in this direction and need to check what you are missing... are you sure that the artifacts are in the current workspace?
Doron