I have pipeline job in my Jenkins 2.x installation. In one of my steps I want to invoke a third party plugin that hasn't been updated to support pipeline jobs.
How can I invoke that plugin and have it run from my pipeline?
Use snippet generator and look for step there, and you will see a list of plugins.
It works for some plugins only, so if yours is not there you are out of luck.
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I have started learning Jenkins recently.
I installed docker on a server which I created on AWS server and using docker I have installed Jenkins.
I wanted to test a Hello pipeline stage by creating new item, but when I go to the pipeline tab I cant see any options like pipeline script or pipeline script from SCM . I have installed git plugin and pipeline plugin also seems to be installed successfully. I am not able to continue my study further. I will be really thankful if someone can help me here.
In reality the pipeline plugin is not just one plugin but a bunch of 6 to 8 plugins. So you may want to install all the pipeline related items in your available plugins section of Manage Jenkins. Once this is done, a reboot of Jenkins is required for the changes to take effect. Here are some of them:
https://plugins.jenkins.io/build-pipeline-plugin/
https://www.jenkins.io/doc/pipeline/steps/pipeline-build-step/
https://plugins.jenkins.io/pipeline-stage-view/
I've been following a few tutorials to get started with Jenkins, and they all describe the same workflow:
Write a Jenkinsfile
Add it to SCM
Add the project to Jenkins via the Web UI
Trigger a build in Jenkins
Modify the Jenkinsfile
Commit changes
goto 4
Is this really the only way to develop a Jenkinsfile? It's a terrible developer experience.
Does Jenkins include any developer conveniences, like the ability to watch a Jenkinsfile and trigger builds automatically, without using SCM?
Are there any other tools out there to improve the developer experience of writing Jenkinsfiles?
With jenkins you can automate the execution of a job or Pipeline with:
jenkins-cli.jar command line tool
REST API
You can also install plugins to configure hooks on your SCM server and automate the Pipeline or Jenkins job execution on every commit event.
If using github you can use the GitHub plugin
If you want to skip the adding project via the web UI, you can consider to automate the project creation by using:
multibranch pipelines that way every branch of a repo will be scanned in order to find a Jenkinsfile and if it is found it will be parsed and the project will be created
Use job dsl to automate the Pipeline project creation.
I have Jenkins Jenkins ver. 2.82 running and would like to use the Pipeline function when creating a new job. But I dont see this listed as option. I can only choose between free-style Project, maven Project, external Project and multiconfigruation. How can I use the Pipeline option, as for example explained here: http://www.jhipster.tech/setting-up-ci-jenkins2/ . I tried to find a solution, but yet I was not successfull. Any help is very much appreciated.
You need to install the Pipeline plugin.
what is the difference between buildflow, multijob and pipeline plugin.
If i have jobs need to run on the same node sequentially, which one should i use and why?
I have some parameters that are to be shared by all the jobs. I can do it using multijob and build flow also. which one is preferable?
I am confused.
Use the Pipeline plugin.
From the Build Flow plugin page:
"Deprecated: Users should migrate to https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Pipeline+Plugin"
If you're starting from scratch, the answer is basically the same for the Multijob plugin (prefer the pipeline plugin). The Multijob plugin was created pre-jenkins-2, and the pipeline plugin has implemented much of its functionality. Pipeline is one of the default plugins and is being actively maintained by multiple developers. Here is someone migrating from Multijob to Pipeline in 2016.
For the Job DSL Plugin (https://github.com/jenkinsci/job-dsl-plugin) you can script your Jenkins jobs using this plugins DSL script with the help of their built in methods to support most plugins.
When you encounter a plugin that is not yet supported you can still use it by using a "Configure" block (https://github.com/jenkinsci/job-dsl-plugin/wiki/The-Configure-Block) that tells the plugin how to build the XML manually.
Is there an equivalent feature for the new Jenkins 2.0 pipeline (https://jenkins.io/solutions/pipeline/) to support plugins that are either not updated often or at least until the plugin author adds support?
You should have a look at new Jenkinsfile capabilities. In essence, you can now configure your entire job using the Jenkinsfile and pipeline approach.