Trigger a new build via Codeship API from Jenkins - jenkins

I have a CI/CD setup with a Jenkins server to manage our internal CI/CD. We have Codeship performing our CI/CD for our AWS work.
I'm looking to setup jobs on our Jenkins server to manage when new builds are triggered on Codeship.
The aim being, we will have our Jira dashboard integrated with Jenkins in such a way that as an issue's status changes, specific jobs are executed.
So I'm trying to create a job that uses Codeship's API to trigger a new build, but it appears that you can only rerun an old build? How do you trigger a fresh build?

From the docs enter link description here you can only retrieve information and restart previous builds.
You want to run specific jobs, but those must be associated with some specific commit on your repository. You can identify the build for that specific commit and restart it.
Builds are always triggered from your git repository (github or bitbucket), and Codeship is highly dependent on that to keep the flow as simple as possible. You don't need to upload anything anywhere and then command Codeship to run a build on that. All you need is specify a repository and push something.
You could create an internal git server where your developers push to and with jenkins you can push changes from there to a repository connected to Codeship. That way you could control indirectly what gets tested and what does not.

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I have a working Jenkins setup that can pull source code from RTC (Jazz server) and build etc. I can run this Jenkins job on demand or schedule to run at a random interval. However, now I am exploring as to how I can run this job only on detecting a change in the repository (e.g. new change set is delivered). I dont want to use the polling mechanism that Jenkins provide and I want RTC's post commit process to call my Jenkins job remotely.
Please can anyone guide me how I do it? Thank you.,

Trigger Jenkins build via push to a specific branch on GitLab

If there is the way to trigger Jenkins build via push to a specific branch on GitLab. At this moment I am using GitLab webhooks integration, to run a specific job? Now it starts after the push to any branch, but I need to start a job from push to the specific branch.
It's now possible since Gitlab 11.3 (https://about.gitlab.com/2018/09/22/gitlab-11-3-released/)
Does not appear to be possible currently by selecting a branch in the GitLab webhook. Feel free to watch progress on this new feature in the GitLab issue Filter web hooks by branch.
I did note in the issue comments the following that might help you configure things via Jenkins:
Jenkins GitLab plugin has an option to filter WebHooks by branch. Under Build Triggers --> Build when a change is pushed to GitLab --> Advanced...

Jenkins configuration with remote live server

I want to know how to configure Jenkins with my live preprod instance server ?
Let me to explain you my process and tell me if I'm right and if that's not the good way to do.
1) I have my project project-1 in a server: /var/www/preprod/project-1, this project is in Magento Cms so it contains many files.
2) I copied this project project-1 in a repo Git, repo = project-1.
3) I cloned this project from this repo Git to my local machine: MAMP/htdocs/project-1.
4) I installed Jenkins, and I configured it with git, So when I do some push, Jenkins do a build automatically.
Now what I want to do is after the build, I want Jenkins to upload these changes to my live preprod server, whether automatically and manually.(I want to know the method to do it manually and automatically).
With this method, I develop in my local server, so when I finish some task and it's done, I push it to Git to have the changes history, and after that my need is to push it to the live server.
So tell me please if I'm using the right method, if it's a good practice and what I miss for this continuous deployment & delivery.
You can push it to the server using the Publish over SSH command if your doing a freestyle job https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Publish+Over+SSH+Plugin, If you are doing an pipeline then you can do a simple scp command...
you can run this after the build is completed and it will run it automatically for you ...
Manually you will be notified when a build is done then you would copy it into your server using the normal way you would do it i.e.copy and paste...
Jenkins is a automation server. The whole point of using jenkins is to automate things so that you "manual" intervention is not required. So automate it where ever possible.
Hope it helps :)

Triggering CI builds using Jenkins on remote build machine

I am trying to implement CICD with Jenkins. I have my code in git repo. The moment I make a change to git repo files, I wish to trigger a Build that should run on remote machine.
This means If I change a file in Git Repo 10 times, I should have 10 Builds, each build corresponding to one change.
Can anyone tell me how this can be done ?
I tried to make use of post-commit hook, but its not working.
What flavor of GIT? Do you use? If you share you config details of webhook and Jenkins additional info can be provided. Per my experience it is a two step process.
Enable the webhook in GIT
Create a job with appropriate configuration to map to the repository and get triggered on commit

Can Jenkins used with python project?

I'm developing a web application using python django. I want a CI service which can automatically pull the latest code from my github and run some test then deploy. I'm not familiar with CI, after searching for a while I found Jenkins seems to be a good solution. Can Jenkins be used for this?
Jenkins can be used with any project.
Regarding pulling the latest code, add the Jenkins GitHub plugin in order to be able to check "Build when a change is pushed to GitHub" under "Build Triggers".
That will launch your job on any new pushed commit on the GitHub repo.
From there, a Jenkins job can execute any command that you would do in command-line, provided the agent on which said job will be scheduled and executed has the necessary tools in its PATH (here python)
An alternative (which does not involved Jenkins) is to setup a webhook and a listener on your server which will detect a "push event" sent by said webhook.

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