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Cleanest way to prematurely exit a Jenkins Pipeline job as a success?
Please note: The following works for scripted pipelines only. For a solution for declarative pipelines see @kgriffs' answer.
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Figured it out. Outside of any stages (otherwise this will just end the ...
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How to disable some branches in Multibranch Jenkins Builds?
Jenkins can filter branches in a multibranch pipeline by name using a wildcard or regular expression.
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How to define variable in Jenkins declarative pipeline?
The variable must be defined in a script section.
pipeline {
agent none
stages {
stage("first") {
steps {
script {
foo = &...
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Cleanest way to prematurely exit a Jenkins Pipeline job as a success?
The Executor.interrupt(Result) method is the cleanest, most direct way I could find to stop a build prematurely and mark it as a success.
script {
currentBuild.getRawBuild().getExecutor()....
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Running a background process in Pipeline job
Any one facing the same problem and using pipeline project, set JENKINS_NODE_COOKIE instead of BUILD_ID.
Dont waste your time setting HUDSON_COOKIE, HUDSON_SERVER_COOKIE, JENKINS_COOKIE or ...
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Cleanest way to prematurely exit a Jenkins Pipeline job as a success?
You can also use error to exit the current stage, then you don't have to consider the current stage hierarchy and similar stuff:
def autoCancelled = false
try {
stage('checkout') {
...
if (...
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What is the difference between Jenkin's `Replay` and `Rebuild` options?
Rebuild, using the Rebuilder plugin allows a completed job to be re-executed while allowing you to change the parameters, assuming your job is parameterized.
Replay does something similar, except it ...
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Triggering specific pipeline builds for monorepos in Jenkins
You can use the "when" block combined with the built in "changeset" condition to conditionally run only certain stages of your monorepo's pipeline. From the when.changeset documentation:
changeset-
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Jenkins: Permission issue using Docker as build environment
I had the same issue with node. The thing is files in the container are owned by "root:root". Try adding docker args -u root:root:
docker {
image 'node:8'
args '-u root:root'
}
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Cleanest way to prematurely exit a Jenkins Pipeline job as a success?
If it is acceptable to set the build status to ABORTED instead of SUCCESS, the following snippet may be used within a pipeline stage to short-circuit the build:
steps {
script {
...
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Get all change logs of since last successful build in Jenkins Pipeline
You may try something like this:
node('my_kubernetes_pod') {
passedBuilds = []
lastSuccessfulBuild(passedBuilds, currentBuild);
def changeLog = getChangeLog(passedBuilds)
echo "...
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How to build a complex parallel Jenkins pipeline?
Based on the comments to my question, and some basic testing the following seems to work:
Use nested parallel statements. (Thanks @lawnmowerlatte)
Although today (May 15th 2017) Jenkins Blue ocean ...
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Jenkins shows the job as failed if there is nothing to commit to gitlab
In my automatic jenkins job, launched daily, if there are no changes the git commit command returns 1. That will mark the build as failed. To solve this problem I use these two commands in my shell ...
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sshagent and jenkinsfile
Found the problem:
I was using the human readable key name from the GUI.
Need to use the key's UUId ID instead (this is specified next to the name in credentials screen)
steps {
sshagent ...
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How to retrigger a Jenkins build after failure using declarative syntax?
The other answer is incorrect. There is indeed a builtin to retry arbitrary sections of your job called retry.
If you want to retry the whole job three times, you can wrap your entire job in a retry ...
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Passing variables between scripts in a Jenkins pipeline
For Declarative Pipeline:
This question already has a highly-upvoted answer on StackOverflow:
If you want to use a file (since a script is the thing generating the value you need):
pipeline {
...
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Jenkins API call (or Groovy builtin) that returns list of all currently running builds of jobs
Turns out you can hit the following URL to get an XML output of all currently running builds, including their build numbers.
http://jenkinsURL/computer/api/xml?tree=computer[executors[...
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How to check out GitHub repo after specifying skipDefaultCheckout in Jenkins declarative pipeline?
You can use the checkout scm step whenever you need the source:
pipeline {
agent none
options { skipDefaultCheckout() }
stages {
stage('Build') {
agent { node { label 'builder' } }
...
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One Jenkinsfile or multiple?
It really comes down to personal preference.
One additional tool you might not be aware of are shared libraries for Pipeline. These allow you to quickly write custom Pipeline steps or factor out ...
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How not to break Jenkins Pipeline when adding new parameters (declarative pipeline)
Here is a solution which seems almost like a workaround that I have found which works for declarative pipelines.
First, we need to add some code at the start of our file before we enter into the ...
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How to define variable in Jenkins declarative pipeline?
You can also use environment block to inject an environment variable.
(Side note: sh is not needed for echo)
pipeline {
agent none
environment {
FOO = "bar"
}
stages {
...
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Jenkins Declarative pipeline: Execute stage conditional on execution of previous stage
A pretty simple solution is to declare a global variable on top of your pipeline, and check it's value in your last conditional stage:
def flag = false;
pipeline {
stages {
stage('1 - ...
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Jenkins shows the job as failed if there is nothing to commit to gitlab
In order to get a success, you need to avoid non-zero exit codes. A simple solution would be to change the last line of your script to git commit -a -m 'Changes pushed by Jenkins' || true, but better ...
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Jenkins Pipeline job; proper quoting for slackSend step
In Groovy you have to use double quotes to get string interpolation:
if ( "$output" != null ) {
slackSend (channel: "@${name}", color: '#36A64F', message: "Job succeeded")
} else {
...
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Jenkins Artifactory plugin not downloading in multi-thread
You could try to run the artifactory file upload in parallel if you are using the Jenkinsfile syntax: https://github.com/jenkinsci/pipeline-examples/blob/master/pipeline-examples/parallel-from-list/...
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How to perform continuous Integration using Jenkins?
Continuous integration means roughly what you said. Whenever something is committed, it is automatically built and tested, with a red/green light showing up at the end.
Continuous deployment takes ...
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Jenkins Job vs Jenkins Pipeline
Jenkins Job and Jenkins Pipeline are basically the same. In a pipeline you define the steps of your job as groovy code (actually it is CPS https://github.com/jenkinsci/workflow-cps-plugin, but that ...
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Jenkins UUIDs ... oh the humanity
def suiteRunId = UUID.randomUUID().toString() worked at the top of the Jenkinsfile.
Thanks all for your answers.
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Jenkins Pipeline "Build when a change is pushed to GitLab"
Looks like you are using the Gitlab plugin for jenkins?
if so this link should be of help https://github.com/jenkinsci/gitlab-plugin#declarative-pipeline-jobs
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How to trim spaces for parameter value in jenkins pipeline?
Use the Groovy trim() method. For instance, def myTrimmedParam = params.myParam.trim().
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