Tag: continuous delivery

In the previous article of this example series, we created a stateless Jenkins docker container that can be initialized solely by scripts. In that example, a seed job for the jobDsl plugin was also implemented. This job was later on used to create an automated simple Jenkins job,-inline-. Now we are ready to shape our Stateless Jenkins container to meet more advanced requirements, – advanced jobs as code-.

We will extend previous seedJob implementation further to create more complex jobs programmatically. Our extended seedJob will poll a job definition repository, and it will gather the information on how to create new jobs for some other remote repositories.

The purpose of these sample series is to create a simple set of examples, which showcases CI/CD as Code, using Jenkins. The main goal is to create a stateless Jenkins Docker Container setup, which can be bootstrapped from a set of configuration files, and scripts so that many problems related to maintenance of the infrastructure, and other operational issues are reduced.

 

The previous article of the series summarizes the steps to install and set up Jenkins programmatically. To see how it’s done, please visit CI/CD as Code Part II – Installing and Setting up Jenkins Programmatically

First Steps to “job as code”

Check out this example from here

We are going to introduce the necessary plugins to achieve the goal of programmatic job descriptions in this step and configure them accordingly via programmatic means.