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Reload Rather than Restart Jenkins (Updated)

On May 3, 2019 ·
By dougmunsinger ·

There is a method in the GUI for Jenkins that tells the Jenkins java process to reload its config from disk. From outside the GUI, where devops and automation live, you can do the same thing through the jenkins-cli.jar. This needed a script to craft the other pieces needed, retrieving a key from vault in…

CicdDiscover-plugin for CICD

On May 6, 2016 ·
By dougmunsinger ·

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…