is there any way to make a bakup of jenkins, all installed plugins and settings?
Or is there any way to install plugins via console?
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n00n
You can backup your Jenkins jobs and configurations using the thinBackup Plugin.
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I am new to Jenkins and trying to understand the use of Plugins.
I have installed Jenkins on a server which already has few software's like Git,terraform.
Do I still need to install Plugins for Jenkins explicitly?
No, if you use git as a shell command.
sh "git"
If you want to use a plugin functionality, you need to install it.
I have a Jenkins server at CloudBees server and it has a lot of jobs.
I have created new Jenkins server at AWS Ec2 instance.
Now, I need to migrate all Jenkins jobs from CloudBees to New Jenkins Server(AWS EC2instance)
How can I do this task? Is there any way to migrate all jobs by CLI?
Use Backup Plugin or thinBackup
You first need to ensure that you do not use proprietary CloudBees features (RBAC, Folders+ plugins). This is the only thing that's really specific to migrating from a CloudBees Jenkins.
After that, standard steps for migrating Jenkins apply:
ensure that you have same plugins installed on the new Jenkins
align credentials and credentials-IDS
API tokens need special handling
After that, you can just copy all $JENKINS_HOME/jobs/*/config.xml files (if using folders, copy recursively).
You can also copy job configs via CLI or REST API, but usually the fastest way is to copy directly on filesystem level.
I'm using the rtyler/jenkins Puppet module to deploy my Jenkins instance. One thing I can't seem to find documentation on is how to use Puppet to configure the Jenkins plugins once I've installed them. Can someone point me to some documentation and/or write a quick example? Thanks.
the module he provides is only for managing/configuring jenkins and managing plugins. All plugins are vastly different, there is no possibility his scripts would be able to manage the wide breadth of jenkins plugins out there. You would want to try to capture that using jenkins backups or by looking into how each module allows configuration.
For anyone interested in how to pull this off, I'm using the Jenkins SCM plugin available here: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/SCM+Sync+configuration+plugin
This requires manually setting up Jenkins and having the plugin sync all the configuration settings to a repository. All future Jenkins instances provisioned by Puppet will need to have all the necessary plugins installed, but the SCM plugin will automatically download all the necessary settings. However, do note that some of the plugins will require you to manually add includes into the SCM to begin tracking them: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/SCM+Sync+Config+shared+additionnal+includes
How to integrate Jenkins with Puppet?
As of now i am integrating Jenkins with Puppet. But We dont know which puppet plugin will support for jenkins. Can you please help on us.
It depends on what you want to achieve. If you simply want to deploy the manifests, there is no need for a puppet plugin. You could use the Publish over SSH plugin or something that let you push your code to the puppet master.
To actually execute puppet commands a generic job configuration would be fine.
If you are looking for a full chain of source control, tests and deployment for your manifests, you should take a look at Gerrit and how to integrate it with Jenkins using the Gerrit Trigger plugin
I have a Java project, building with Gradle, using the Jenkins CI server, and I would like to publish to an Artifactory server, using Maven-compatible artifacts. The project is using Git. I would also like to use the release management features of Jenkins if possible.
This is very confusing. There are at least five plugins, with much overlapping redundant functionality. Some plugins seem to replace others. Some plugins seem to require others.
FYI, the five relevant plugins seem to be:
1) Jenkins Artifactory Plugin
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Artifactory+Plugin
2) Gradle "maven" Plugin
http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/maven_plugin.html
3) Gradle "maven-publish" Plugin
http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/publishing_maven.html
4) Gradle "artifactory" Plugin
https://www.jfrog.com/confluence/display/RTF/Gradle+Artifactory+Plugin
5) Gradle "artifactory-publish" Plugin
http://www.jfrog.com/confluence/display/RTF/Gradle+1.6+Publishing+Artifactory+Plugin
What is the best way to set this up?
If I use the Jenkins Artifactory Plugin with none of the other plugins mentioned, I get an error:
No publish configurations specified for project ':' and the default 'archives' configuration does not exist.
Cannot publish pom for project ':my-great-app' since it does not contain the Maven plugin install task and task ':my-great-app:artifactoryPublish' does not specify a custom pom path.
I assume I need to use either maven or maven-publish in build.gradle?
maven-publish is labeled as the incubating successor to the maven plugin. How much better is it? How stable is it?
How does using one of the Gradle Artifactory plugins compare to the standard maven publishing plugins vs using the Jenkins plugin?
Gradle Artifactory plugins: Gradle can deploy build artifacts and build information directly, without need in CI server by using one of the Artifactory plugins.
artifactory plugin works with maven plugin and publishes configurations, generated by maven plugin.
artifactory-publish plugin works with maven-publish plugin and publishes publications generated by maven-publish plugin.
Jenkins Artifactory plugin works in two modes:
Providing a UI to override settings, specified in artifactory or artifactory-publish plugins in Gradle build script.
Adding and configuring artifactory plugin to the Gradle script if it is not there.
It also provides release management (for both modes).
So, here's what you need to decide:
Whether you use one of the Gradle plugins. Our recommendation is - use it (versioned configuration in build script is an advantage comparing to UI-only configuration.
Which plugin you want to use -- maven or maven-publish. While the later is still 'incubating', it is much more flexible than the former. Once you know with which maven plugin you want to use, select the appropriate artifactory plugin.
You need the Artifactory Jenkins plugin in either way if you want to use the release functionality, just check (or uncheck) the 'Project uses the Artifactory Gradle Plugin' checkbox.