Context:
At my work most developers are free to write their own Jenkinsfile for their own team's projects.
As the Jenkins admin, I provide developers with a global shared library.
Most projects are using either v1 or v2 or v3 or another version of this library, using the idiom library("theSharedLib#v#").
Question: Is there a way for me to find out which Jenkinsfile is using which version of the shared library without having to actually lookup into all those Jenkinsfile files (50+ files in as much git repos)?
What I would see best is some mechanism that write up (into a file on the Jenkins master or in a DB) which project/Jenkinsfile is using which version at the time the library is loaded.
A possible solution would be to add some code to every function inside the library that will actually do this reporting. I could then see which function is used by who. Any better solution?
I wrote https://github.com/CiscoDevNet/es-logger to gather information such as this from Jenkins. It has a plugin that will run a regex against the console log of a completed job and can then post events to elastic search.
Jenkins helpfully posts library loads at the start of the log such as:
Loading library sharedLib#version
So a simple regex like
"^Loading library\S+(?P<library_name>.*?)#(?P<library_version>.*?)\S+$"
added to the console_log_events plugin would generate events in an elastic search for each usage and each version.
I struggled few days, But still, I could not find a solution for this.
I am trying to deploy Marathon apps with Jenkins and follow this tutorial.
https://docs.mesosphere.com/1.10/tutorials/deploy-on-marathon/
I want to configure a parameterized project for this. Eg :
Builder can select one choice out of four choices.
As an Example: Suppose the user has selected the vault option.
Then I need to change the file name(Definition File) base on what user has selected on above options.
I am using Marathon deployment plugin.
For this configs I am getting below error :
18:12:40 [Marathon] Application Definition not found:
18:12:40 [Marathon] Could not find file 'deployment_files/"($CONTAINER)".json'
18:12:40 Build step 'Marathon Deployment' changed build result to FAILURE
Could you please help me to achieve this problem or suggest a better way to do this?
When referencing a build parameter in another setting (or another parameter) the way you are trying to, I typically use the following format:
deployment_files/${CONTAINER}.json
There is some good reading to be done in the following thread on using $VAR vs ${VAR}
Is it possible to configure a "Job Template" (this is a particular kind of Jenkins item) with the groovy template coming from SCM as is possible in other job types? I don't see it as an option in ours, but perhaps there is another plugin required for this?
There is not such an option. The closest equivalent would be to create a job template using the Pipeline transformer, where the inline script is merely boilerplate running a load step to load the “real” code. (An existing RFE CJP-1718 suggests removing the need for this boilerplate; if that would be useful to you, file a support ticket mentioning it.)
When viewing a project in Jenkins, I'd like to see the last console output displayed on the project page.
This satisfies two needs:
I most often just want to see what the output of the build was; clicking through to the last console output seems needlessly cumbersome
Non-technical management can't remember how to / aren't sufficiently motivated to click through to the last console output in cases where the output is relevant to them if only they were to easily see it
I've looked for plugins that support this but can't find any.
What options do I have?
First an easy solution: job descriptions (push 'edit description' button on the main job page) admit HREF links. Make that link your latest build console permalink (http://[jenkins_server]/job/[job-name]/lastBuild/console).
If even one click is too much, here's a possible solution: you can use log contents as the description of your job. You can update your job via Jenkins CLI with:
java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s http://[jenkins-server] update-job [job-name] < config.xml
So what you need to do is this: after your jobs run, trigger another job that will take the triggering job and console output file as parameters, substitute <description> in the job's config.xml with the contents of the console file (with proper escaping, etc.), and run the update command as above. Of course, this solution is labor-intensive and bug-prone.
I had this same questions myself and I ended up finding this option useful...
http://[jenkins-server]/job/[job-name]/[build-number|lastBuild]/logText/progressiveText?start=0
Edit: This no longer works in the current version of Jenkins
Similar to malenkiy_scot's answer, you can actually embed iframes in the description.
I use:
<iframe src='lastBuild/consoleText' style='width: 80%; height: 500px'></iframe>
as my project description, and it shows the latest console text in the project description page.
I just created a plugin that displays console output of latest build at the project page.
https://github.com/jenkinsci/display-console-output-plugin
To use this plugin, you have to type mvn hpi:hpi to create a display-console-output.hpi file. Then upload this plugin from http://localhost:8080/pluginManager/advanced.
You can simply just use one of these plugins:
http://wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/HUDSON/Hudson+Personal+View
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Console+Column+Plugin
May be you don't need it, you can click in the status button in the left of each build, each button show console output for each build.
Of course, this feature may not be operative in all Jenkins versions.
The solution for your problem is the https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Extra+Columns+Plugin plugin for Jenkins. After installing it you may modify your view to add a button for the console output as an additional column.
For a declarative pipeline, you can show a link to the console right where the progress bar shows up by adding this line at the very top of the file:
currentBuild.description = """Job console"""
This depends on a plugin and a setting, both of which were already on my system:
The OWASP Markup Formatter plugin provides the setting Security > Configure Global Security > Markup Formatter, which should be set to "Safe HTML".
The setting Jenkins -> Manage Jenkins -> Configure System -> Jenkins Location -> Jenkins URL needs to be the URL of your Jenkins installation.
I have a grails project and I use hudson to follow different analysis. I want to send the report analysis (cobertura, codenarc, findbug) to the developer. However, I don't know how to use hudson's ext-mail. Through googling I suspect the solution is to use jelly sscript but I can seem to get it to work.
If the default jelly templates don't have everything you need in them, you can customize them without much effort.
Grab a copy of the default template: Default Jelly Templates
Modify it as needed
Place a copy in JENKINS_HOME\email-templates (create the dir if needed)
Configure the build to utilize the new template. If your new script is ensienne.jelly, the email content would look like this ${JELLY_SCRIPT,template="ensienne"}.
Side Note: Hudson was renamed to Jenkins a while back.
Also, here is a good resource for the email-ext plugin: Email-ext wiki