We have a Jenkins master-slave model. Each job that is being run on slaves require a certain amount of configuration files. These files must be copied from master to each slave before the build step. So far I have been able to accomplish this with the Config File Provider Plugin. The drawback of this plugin is that it doesn't support folders, I would like to be able to put the configuration files for slave1 in the folder slave1 and so on. Now I have a huge list of files in the dropdown menu when creating a job and asked to provide configuration files.
This plugin comes with something handy: the configuration files can be edited via the web interface.
On the other hand Jenkins provides a userContent folder on the master accessible via http://[jenkins-server]/userContent that resolves my need for folders, but I haven't found a way to edit these files from the provided web interface.
I must mention that the master is a remote machine and I don't want to connect to it everytime I need to modify a file there. Is there any way to edit the files in the userContent folder, or to organize the files uploaded to the Config File Plugin into folders?
Thanks!
If possible put all the configuration into your SCM system and allow Jenkins to fetch them when needed/as they change.
Then your configuration files are managed just like your source code. As a bonus you can add a new node easily and developers can access and use they configuration files to test their build.
Supporting evidence:
Martin Fowler
Andrew Binstock
Darryl Bowler
If you have environment specific config files you can either load all of the individual config files into into your SCM system (this becomes unmanageable if you have a lot). Alternatively you can still store them in your SCM system and then do some combination of scripting with Jenkins parameters to update them on the fly.
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I want to take the backup of jenkins confuguration in case if I lode my machine. I am using the thinBackup plugin provided by jenkins. It has an option where I provide the path to folder where I want to take the backup.
Now the problem is I want to specify the folder on another machine, as it makes sense to have backup on different machine, how do I specifythe path to that folder? Do I have to specify as if
abc#12.34.567.890:path/to/folder?
I am new to jenkins so any help would be appreciated.
Thin backup performs just copies of jenkins configuration files in a specific folder for convenience. Is up to you to store it to scm or other machines, but it can be done with some simple script that upload your backup zip if exists
I have a Java project that is running as a job on a Jenkins server. The project is generating a file that is being stored locally on the server in the respective project folder. Currently, to get hold of this file, I am logging into the Jenkins server and get it manually. I would like to make this file available for download directly through the Jenkins job somehow. Not sure if there is a way to do that though. Is there a plug in that might add this functionality or is there any other way to achieve that?
Archive the file. For a freestyle job, that would be a "Post Build Step". For a pipeline job, use archiveArtifacts.
You definitely don't want to rely it on it being in a workspace on the Jenkins agent machine somewhere. The workspace directories can move and change, or be removed.
I am in Jenkins and using ArtifactDeployer. The console output tells me that the remote repo is http:// myrepo but all it does is create a new folder in my base directory which I also specify in this plugin. It correctly finds only one file to copy but strangely just creates a new directory and copies it in there. I thought this would enable me to deploy artifacts to another server... Can I do that?
No you can not do that with artifacts deployer but there are other ones you can use - read below:
Jenkins provides by default a feature for archiving artifacts generated by the build of a Jenkins Job. These artifacts are archived in the JENKINS_HOME directory. However, this directory contains also tool configurations (global and job configurations). Therefore, there is no separation between infrastructure data, jobs data and generated elements. It is often considered to be a bad practice and it doesn't help to manage it from an administrator point of view.
Unfortunately, it's not possible to extend the 'archived artifacts' feature to archive artifacts in a location other than JENKINS_HOME.
The main goal of the ArtifactDeployer plugin is to archive artifacts in your desired locations (other than JENKINS_HOME directory).
There are many Jenkins plugins close to ArtifactDeployer such as CopyArtifact plugin or CopyArchiver plugin for publishing artifacts from Jenkins resources (from the current workspace, from the old builds of the same job or other jobs, ...) to remote locations with the protocol file://
There are also others plugins for managing other protocols such as ftp://, ssh:///.
I have a scenario wherein the users who have created some configuration files need to upload the same from the desktop where they access Jenkins onto the Job's workspace to build and execute tests.
So I did try using the Config File Provider plugin as mentioned in https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Config+File+Provider+Plugin. This seems to work fine to copy the configuration file to the Jenkins UI, which can be later synced to the Slave with the given path in the Build environment of the respective job. But the users who wish to upload these files don't have the administrative rights. Hence they are unable to access the Configuration File Management which is under the Manage Jenkins tab. Is there any way that I can move the Configuration File Management under the Jenkins sidebar and allow users to edit the same.
Are there any other plugins that will help me achieve the same? I did also try Copy to Slave plugin but this only copies the files under $JENKINS_HOME/userContent to the job's workspace. We will have to copy the files from the desktop to $JENKINS_HOME/userContent and then use the plugin.
Wouldn't using a parameterized job and have one of the parameters be a File Parameter? See https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Parameterized+Build
I am new to Jenkins. I am trying to configure Jenkins to run my Selenium tests on multiple browsers. So I thought multi-configuration project would be a best choice. I am using Sauce labs for performing cross-browser testing.
My selenium source code is on my local system directory. I have not uploaded the same to any of the repositories. I have configured a multi-configuration project with a custom workspace pointing to my local source code, and selected "none" in Source code management section.
Now, when I build the job, the job creates workspace for each browser combination. Eg: <project workspace>\SELENIUM_DRIVER\Windows 2003firefox16 and <project workspace>\SELENIUM_DRIVER\Windows 2003internet explorer8. But the files are not copied to each of these workspaces automatically. I need to copy my files manually into these directories for it to work.
Is it necessary to have Repositories like SVN, CVS or Git for this to work. Or is there a way I can run the build from my local system?
For this to work, a Repository is not required,
but you do need to have some good way to access your artifacts and selenium code.
Suggest you drop the artifacts on a shared drive as a preliminary step,
and also put your selenium source-code on a shared drive, as a practice -
this will allow you to run multiple tests from multiple machines.
Cheers