I worked through how to add in the trigger for building the new job in Jenkins after the CicdDiscover plugin created it – and realized… All it has to do is re-send the original /git/notifyCommit?url=Url hook. The second time the CicdDiscover plugin will ignore it and the original Git plugin will catch and handle. This…
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CicdDiscover-plugin for CICD
The problem with hacking into the git-plugin and calling a separate script is that the git-plugin for Jenkins is core to a lot of the Pipeline plugins we also want to move forward with. We have to maintain the altered git-plugin through updates as that plugin is under active development. And the external script has…
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The original Jenkins git plugin drops the case where the repo string it’s parsing for doesn’t exist in a Jenkins job. To use this all by itself we would have to by hand configure and maintain jobs in Jenkins and in a large CICD environment that’s not workable. It’s possible that in the Jenkins architecture…
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Jenkins has survived Hudson and is a go-to UI for what used to be called Release Engineering. It can become a key element in Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery. I’ve been setting it up as a packer-ansible integration tool to build code then package it as AMI’s (Amazon Machine Images) to drop into AWS (Amazon Web…
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