I have created some build configurations with snapshot and artifact dependencies (to create a build chain). The configurations are executed always on the same agent so upload of artifacts to master is not necessary.
Is that possible in TeamCity? Can I somehow avoid the upload of artifacts to master and rather pass the artifacts directly to the next build configuration in the chain?
Thanks in advance.
Martin
There is no way to disable the upload of artifacts to TeamCity, as build agents are allowed to come and go.
But since v. 8.1, TeamCity build agent caches artifacts while uploading them, so they are not re-downloaded again, when next build starts.
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There is a job controlled by Development team which built in a different node. I am on Testing team who want to take the artifacts and deploy on test device.
I can see those Artifacts from dev are stored in some path in dev's node. Does it means it must first archived in Jenkins master before I can copy it to my job?
I am using Copy Artifact plugin and constantly getting the error
Failed to copy artifacts from <dev-job> with filter: <path-in-dev-node>
*Some newbie question since i just moved from TeamCity
You probably want to use: Copy Artifact plugin.
Adds a build step to copy artifacts from another project.
Consider also, the Jenkins post-buid step "Archive the artifacts".
If you copy from the other job's workspace, what happens if another job is in progress or the workspace is wiped? That step copies them from the node to the master and stores a copy along with the build logs, etc. That makes them available via the UI as long as the build logs remain. It can take up space tho.
If you do use archive artifacts, consider using the system property jenkins.model.Jenkins.buildsDir to store all the build logs (and artifacts) outside of the jobs config directory. Some downtime and work required to separate the two (config / logs) .
You may also want to consider using a proper repository manager (Nexus / artifactory)
Finally, you may want to learn about using a Jenkins pipeline rather the relying on chained jobs, triggers or users and so forth. Why? 'cos it's much more controlled and easier to maintain.
ps: I'm not a huge fan of artifactDeployer, but it may work for you.
pps: you may want to review this in depth answer: Jenkis downstream job fails to find upstream artifacts
How can I upload binaries straight to Jenkins without running a build?
For example, I want to use a customized maven, without deploying it to all of my nodes.
Is there a neat way to somehow upload this zip straight to Jenkins? Without running a build that has a publish artifacts step?
Jenkins is built for keeping the artifacts that come out of a build job. It's not built for just uploading artifacts without building.
For what you want to do, use an artifact repository server like JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus or Archiva. These are built exactly for that purpose.
We have a build project which always generates three files (artifacts). When promoted, these files will be used for a setup package. With the promoted builds plugin, it's only possible to promote all artifacts of a build. Is there a way to only promote selected files of a build? Currently I can only think of splitting up the build process into separate projects - but then we've the problem with different workspaces.
Thanks a lot.
The Promoted Builds plugin by itself does not "promote" the artifacts. It promotes a build run.
Part of the promotion process may be a Copy Artifacts step, and that is the step that takes the artifacts from promoted build run and does ... whatever you have configured for the promotion.
In the Copy Artifacts step, you can definitely specify a pattern for the files to copy.
I am using jenkins for build process. I am running some scripts on remote server using jenkins server. It's fine but remote host generates some html file. I want to copy that file back to jenkins server. Is it possible to do it from jenkins server?
If you want to archive it permanently, you can use the Archive Artifacts option in the Post-build step in Jenkins. In the case of builds that happen on slaves, Archive Artifacts copies the artifacts back to the Jenkins server for archiving and reuse.
If you want to then use this in a subsequent build, you can use the Copy Artifacts step to introduce an artifact from another build into your subsequent process on any Jenkins slave.
We use this to move production builds into our test environment after packaging and it works great.
Copy to slave plugin also copies files back from slaves to the master. Might be worth the look.
I have a maven job in jenkins. Normally at the end of the build the artifacts will be deployed to artifactory via jenkins post build action.
But if I make a release build I get an error from jenkins in this case.
So, is there a possiblity to avoid deploying the artifacts at the end of a release build.
Let me precise the error. The maven goals are 'clean install'. I need the post action for deploying to artifactory by a 'normal' job. If I make a release of this artifact via the M2 Release Plugin the deploying of the relased artifacts will be done by the M2 Release Plugin itself. But at the end of the job the post action tries to deploy artifact with the old SNAPSHOT version which is not allowed by artifactory.
Jenkins M2 release plugin (used maven-release-plugin of Maven). If you have created a Maven job (instead of a Free Style), then in M2 Release section in job's configuration, you'll see the goals are:
-Dresume=false release:prepare release:perform
If you replace it with the following M2 release plugin won't call deploy goal which is initiated by release:perform goal by default.
-Dresume=false release:prepare release:perform -Darguments="-Dmaven.deploy.skip=true"
In my case, I didn't want the artifacts to go to Artifactory as soon as release:perform and release:prepare goals were completed, so the above helped. But, even though Jenkins job has a Post Build action as "Deploy to Artifactory" to either snapshot or release repositories (depending upon what kind of build you have aka automated/manually run build job OR by running Perform Maven Release ), it never called the post build action.
This can be good in the sense, now I can call deployment using the generated release artifacts in an environment and if the deployment/some IT tests are successful, then I can upload the artifacts to Artifactory. Downside is, what if your deployment depends upon fetching the new artifact from Artifactory/Nexus (i.e. somewhere in deploy script's logic) then you can't have that working until you copy artifacts from one job to another child job.
Apart from that, maven deploy goal requires valid / settings in either settings.xml or pom.xml where the you specify for each of the above sections, which are defined under section, must match with the value of section defined in setting.xml/pom.xml.
One can defined / set the value of section to use a non-release repository which is higher in order (for artifact resolution) than a snapshot repository i.e. use libs-alpha-local or libs-stage-local and then let maven deploy goal deploy the artifacts to Artifactory/Nexus.
Later, upon successful deployments to higher environments (like QA/PRE etc), you can move the artifact from alpha/stage to libs-release-local.
IS_M2RELEASEBUILD Boolean variable which comes with M2 Release plugin can be used in a conditional step to deploy here or there or not at all.
In the configuration of the 'Maven release build' you can set in the advanced mode a 'Release environment variable' (default is IS_M2RELEASEBUILD). Later in the post-bild-action 'publish artifacts' you can check if this environment variable is set and then the deploying is skipped.
I'm thinking you may want to create a separate jenkins job just for your release builds. And under post build action to run different set of maven commands just to package the artificat and not install it to the artifactory. That being said if other applications depends on that artifact you do not want to release. This may be causing versioning problems.
You should take a look at Artifactory Jenkins plugin. 1. It deploys with errors. 2. It has built in release functionality. 3. It will provide you with unique buildInfo functionality for saving build information tougher with artifacts in Artifactory, https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Artifactory+Plugin
If I can assume you're using the M2 Release Plugin, then there's another issue.
Skipping the deployment after a release would be an unnecessary workaround, since I've seen this work. You should try to fix this by the root cause.
It would help if you could provide more info about the error.