I would like to copy the configurations of Jenkins server(on windows) to another on Jenkins server (on Windows platform ).Can any one help how to do it?
Job import plugin do the work for you, I have used it many times. It works similar to copying the config.xml and nextBuild files, but it gives you a convenient interface to choose which jobs you want to transfer.
However you need to take care of all installed Jenkins plugins yourself.
Did you try Job import plugin? It can import one or many projects. It probably takes care of required plugins as well.
My next try will be to copy jenkins home from one machine to another. If you do not have much history this will be quick. (Or you could copy only corresponding /config.xml and nextBuild files)
You may use SCM Sync configuration plugin for backup and moving configuration onto new machine..
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Good afternoon,
As I understand Jenkins, if I need to install a plugin, it goes to Jenkins Plugins
The problem I have is Jenkins is installed on a closed network, it cannot access the internet. Is there a way I can download all of the plugins, place them on a web server on my local LAN, and have Jenkins reach out and download plugins as necessary? I could download everything and install one plugin at a time, but that seems a little tedious.
You could follow some or all of the instructions for setting up an artifactory mirror for the plugin repo.
It will need to be a http/https server and you will find that many plugins have a multitude of dependencies
The closed network problem:
You can take a cue from the Jenkins Docker install-plugins.sh approach ...
This script takes as input a list of plugins, and optionally versions (eg: $0 workflow-aggregator:2.6 pipeline-maven:3.6.5 job-dsl:1.70) and will download all the plugins and dependencies into a working directory.
Our approach is to create a file (under version control) and redirect that to the command line input (ie: install-plugins.sh $(< plugins.lst).
You can download from where you do have internet access and then place on your network, manually copying them to your ${JENKINS_HOME}/plugins directory and restart the instance.
The tedious list problem:
If you only specify top-level plugins (ie: what you need), every time you run the script, it will resolve the latest dependencies. Makes for a short list, but random dependencies if they get updated at https://updates.jenkins.io. You can use a two-step approach to address this. Use the short-list to download the required plugins and dependencies. Store the generated explicit list for future reference or repeatability.
I have a Jenkins setup running in production, I want to automate jenkins setup(installation) along with all the jobs that are setup in jenkins.
One crude way I can think of is to copy the whole jobs directory to the new Jenkins setup.
I want to know how other people in industry do deal with this problem.
I have used the plugin Thinbackup to move jobs, users, and plugins. You can make a full backup and restore it to the new server. The plugin is not perfect and is up for adoption. I had issues with the restore. I ended up using the plugin only for creating the archive, but then I copied manually the folders (users, jobs, plugins, nodes, email-templates, secrets, JENKINS_HOME files) from the archive to the new server.
Before creating the archive or copying the jobs, ensure that no more than 30 builds per job are kept, this will keep your archive small. I have seen 5000+ builds per job, which were totally unnecessary and were blocking the creation of the archive.
When you create or restore the archive, or copy files, the server should be in quiet mode, no builds should be executed.
http://<jenkins.server>/quietDown
After you copy the files or restore the archive, you should restart Jenkins or even better, restart the server.
Another option is to use RSync as mentioned here. I am not sure what is the OS of your Jenkins server. If it is Linux you can check out this guide that I have written.
This is reproducible 100%.
We are working on different branches of the release, but each branch should run the same jobs, with some minor change. So ideally I want to copy all the jobs from one working branch to a new branch.
I select a New item -> folder and select copy from another folder.
The new folder contains the all the jobs from source folder, but all the job configurations are missing. In another word, I have jobs created just with job names, I need to refill everything else. This is essentially useless.
I googled and did not see any related errors. Anyone have any good advice on copy jenkins folders ? I am jenkins 1.651.3, ubuntu 14.04
I tried the same on jenkins 2.19.1 and worked with out the issue your are seeing.
The best way to create similar array of jobs for new branches is via groovy & using https://jenkinsci.github.io/job-dsl-plugin/
create a job where you execute a groovy script to iterate over a list of branches and creates jobs .
DSL plugin is available for jenkins 1.642 and above
Note that manipulating content in JENKINS_HOME is not advised and is typically restricted
I should also mentioned it turns out just our computer issue. Lack of ram. After we added more ram, it' all working perfectly!
Currently I have my whole automation source code (Script and test data) in Jenkins server and whenever I want to change my test data, I need to go to the Jenkins server machine and changing it .
The problem is if I want to change the test data, I need to wait for long time for my access from the admin team. Also I have huge number of test data in my project so I am not interested in creating Jenkins project with Parameter Builds. So if there any option available in Jenkins to import files (excel) before build then that would we helpful.
Please consider as a priority one.
The most common way to transfer files to Jenkins server is to use a version control system like git or subversion:
Commit files to version control system
Configure Jenkins job to detect change in the version control system and check out work directory for the build or test
If your files are so big they cannot fit into a version control system (some of them do not perform well with files in the gigabyte range), you could use a shared disk drive which you have permission to write to.
I work in a team which maintains a Java website and back end java jobs and shell script jobs.
After all developers complete their updates, only the relevant ones are committed to source control system.
Later ant build scripts are run and war files are generated.
Along with these war files there will genrally be shell scripts etc to be copied to QA/PROD.
Then one fine day there is a team call the release management team which will transfer the code from our Dev environment to QA/PROD.
Recently I came across the Continuous Integration systems like Jenkins/Hudson.
Can these tools build all the changes committed and automatically transfer my code to QA/PROD.
BTW I work in a AIX Server environment and use Tomcat as the Container.
I am more curious whether the tool will be able to copy my code to QA/PROD.
Please Clarify.
The answer is almost certainly yes, depending on your particular setup for copying the code. There is a large number of plugins for this purposes at the appropriate Jenkins wiki page. You should be able to find something there for your needs.