When you talk about scaling CI you’re really talking about scaling the use of your CI server to handle all your feature branches along with your mainline. Initially this looks like a good approach as the developers in a branch get all the advantages of the automated testing that the CI jobs include. However, you … Read more
In the new Jenkins 2.0 pipeline (previously named the Workflow Plugin), this is done differently for: The main repository Other additional repositories Here I am specifically referring to the Multibranch Pipeline version 2.9. Main repository This is the repository that contains your Jenkinsfile. In the Configure screen for your pipeline project, enter your repository name, … Read more
Use the script console (Manage Jenkins > Script Console) and something like this script to bulk delete a job’s build history https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins-scripts/blob/master/scriptler/bulkDeleteBuilds.groovy That script assumes you want to only delete a range of builds. To delete all builds for a given job, use this (tested): // change this variable to match the name of the … Read more
Jenkins uses Jetty, and Jetty’s default timeout is 30 minutes. This is independent of authentication settings — I use Active Directory but it’s still this setting that affects timeouts. You can override the timeout by passing an argument –sessionTimeout=<minutes> to the Jenkins init script, or -DsessionTimeout=<minutes> to the .war file. For example: # Set the … Read more
You can use Parameterized Trigger Plugin which will let you pass parameters from one task to another. You need also add this parameter you passed from upstream in downstream.
Team City is by far and away the best CI server out there. Its killer feature for me is the tight integration with IDEs (IntelliJ, Eclipse and VisualStudio). It can show you, for example, when a file you’re editing in the IDE becomes out of date, who changed it and what they changed. You can … Read more
Michael, Two things: When Jenkins connects to a computer, it goes to the sh shell, and not the bash shell (at least this is what I have noticed – I may be wrong). So any changes you make to $PATH in your bashrc file are not considered. Also, any changes you make to $PATH in … Read more
The Git plugin has an option (excluded region) to use regexes to determine whether to skip building based on whether files in the commit match the excluded region regex. Unfortunately, the stock Git plugin does not have a “included region” feature at this time (1.15). However, someone posted patches on GitHub that work on Jenkins … Read more
Click on “new job” and then select “Copy existing job” at the bottom. Then enter the name of the job you want to copy into the text field.
I needed to do exactly what you do, here’s how I setup Jenkins to do this: Add the NUnit Plugin to Jenkins In your project go to Configure -> Build -> Add a build step In the dropdown scroll down to -> Execute Windows Batch Command Ensure this step is placed after your MSBuild step … Read more