How can I configure a Jenkins Multibranch Pipeline as Maven project?
For a Maven project in Jenkins I get the option.:
Build Triggers
Build whenever a SNAPSHOT dependency is built
But for a Jenkins Multibranch Pipeline I don't get that option.
How to get that option for a Jenkins Multibranch Pipeline?
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I think it is not possible. But I can share workaround with you.
Create maven project job, configure webhooks between jenkins and gitlab. In Source Code Management add as much branches as you want.
You can create a multibranch pipeline in Jenkin by choosing "Multibranch pipeline " in the option
There is no poll SCM but you can use Scan Multibranch Pipeline Triggers instead. Also take advantage of WebHook if the SCM you use gives that option
and about Build whenever a SNAPSHOT dependency is built this option - I dont think there is a way to do this with multibranch pipeline because this option comes with maven-plugins and can only available in Maven Project. But with out this you can achive the same scenario in different way by following good practice.
Build the dependent project seperately and keep the generate artifact in Nexus or Artifactory, so that the other job will pull independently.
Always make a good practice to use RELEASE version not SNAPSHOT version
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Is there a way to configure a single Jenkins job to perform the release of each newer version of my application?
i.e, I would like to know in detail if it's possible to do the following tasks without any human intervention. I'm using SVN as well as Artifactory.
Branch from the tag to be released
Change the snapshot versions in pom files to release versions (for each dependency defined in pom)
Take release build (EAR)
Deploy it in Weblogic instance.
Prepare release note
Tag the release
Thanks in advance.
It can be fully automated using Multijob plugin (Also with a regular single job, but using Multijob it will be easier and you can use Maven targets instead of some manual shell scripting ).
The workflow starts with:
commit and push to git
hook in git should trigger a job by http POST, so u need to configure your job to accept remote triggering. You can pass the branch name as parameter
job started, cloning the branch (git plugin)
start Maven project to mvn clean install and check unit tests (optional)
start Maven project to mvn release:prepare and mvn release:perform to omit the SNAPSHOT from pom.xml
tag the branch (using shell block and simple git commands)
merge to master branch (optionally)
start Maven project to mvn deploy to deploy to weblogic (weblogic should be configured in ~/.m2/settings.xml as the repository for deploying the artifacts
NOTE: all tasks can be also in 1 job with some shell scripting. the best practices is to use plugins but sometimes you will find it easier to use shell scripting for some tasks.
I have a maven multi module project with several modules. I want to deploy them (mvn deploy) only if they all pass a full mvn install (which includes the tests).
Currently, I run a mvn install on the project. If all modules pass, I run mvn deploy to do the deployment. The problem I see is the waste of time calling mvn twice (even if I skip tests on the second run).
Does anyone have an idea on this?
EDIT: I have learned that using Artifactory as a repository manager and the maven-artifactory-plugin with your maven setup will add the atomic deploy behaviour to the mvn deploy command. See the Build Integration section in the Artifactory documentation.
[DISCLOSURE - I'm associated with JFrog. Artifactory creator.]
Take a look at the deployAtEnd parameter of Maven Deployment plugin: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-deploy-plugin/deploy-mojo.html
This is a bit tricky. Maven is not atomic when it executes the build life-cycle. So a broken set of artifacts may end up in a repository.
One solution I know is Nexus Pro: http://www.sonatype.com/Products/Nexus-Professional/Features - it allows you to promote builds or define certain repos as staging. So only verified versions get promoted to be used. Maybe artifactory has something similar - I just don't know.
If that solution is too expensive you probably need to create a cleanup build or profile to remove artifacts that where already uploaded. My first guess would be to write a Maven plugin to use the the proxy remote API or maybe the maven features are already sufficient. But since deploy means update the meta-data xml files too I dont think there is a delete - not sure on this either.
In our web-application we manage our continuous integration using TeamCity. So far we have manually added required jars and used an ant script to build and deploy our application. Lately we switched to Maven and added Artifactory to the cycle.
I need to know how to deploy our build artifacts from TeamCity to Artifactory.
I added the Artifactory plugin to TeamCity (following this guide) but when trying to add a new build step I can't seem to find any Artifactory related step (which I expect to find).
Am missing something here?
I don't think it is a separate step but actually a set of options at the end of the Maven build step itself (it should be toward the bottom).
See here for more detail:
http://wiki.jfrog.org/confluence/display/RTF/TeamCity+Artifactory+Plug-in.
Specifically, it says "The 'Deploy maven artifacts' option will only be available when using a 'Maven2' build runner."
I´m working with Maven 3, eclipse Helios and Jenkins e Artifactory. During the execution of release plugin one of the steps that this plugin is doing, is publish in artifactory the generated release. In my organization, we have the following issue:
Only the manage of configuration can run the release through Jenkins with release-plugin, but any developer can run the release plugin through console and this execution will overwrite the release published in artifactory.
I´m looking around artifactory configurations and all developer users are with read permissions but they can update release local in artifactory.
There are any solution to block or disable the execution of local release from eclipse through Jenkins?
Thanks if anyone can help me!
I would suggets using Artifactory's release management for Jenkins, which is part of the Jenkins Artifactory plugin.
This will allow you to run release management purely from Jenkins, possibly with a dedicated user, and also run staging and promotion on releases.
Releasing/staging would typically be done to a dedicated repo in Artifactory which only the Jenkins release user has write permissions for.
The release management functionality in the Jenkins Artifactory plugin is a complete replacement for the maven release plugin (and for the Jenkins m2release plugin which is based on the latter), that is:
Faster and involves less (unnecessary) rebuild cycles
Integrates your existing Maven and SCM Jenkins configs
More flexible in how versions can be applied
Offers robust rollbacks
Also works for non-Maven build types
Move release plugin to profile (it should not be activate by default). Activate profile only when you run build on jenkins. (for profile name jenkins use mvn <goals> -Pjenkins)
http://wiki.jfrog.org/confluence/display/RTF/Managing+Permissions
I'm trying to setup a complete CI server, but I struggle on some points.
Currently, my system work as follow :
I commit local changes on my local GIT repository, then push to the GIT repository on the CI server
I then have a jenkins job triggered by the SCM change, who run a clean install and by doing so executes all my Junit and Jstestdriver test (via a local jstd server). This job deploy the snapshot artifact to a repository on my nexus repository
I installed M2-release-plugin for jenkins, and setup my pom.xml accordingly using maven-release-plugin. When i click on "Perform maven release" in jenkins job page, jenkins run mvn release:prepare release:perform, thus creating a tag in my git repo (say v000001) and deploying a versionned artifact on my nexus repository.
I don't really know if this process is fine, but i guess so...
My problem is that I want to deliver the versionned artifact in my nexus repo (say "artifact-v0000001.war") in my production tomcat. But I can't figure out how to do it.
When I do "mvn release:prepare release:perform tomcat:deploy" it deploys the new SNAPSHOT artifact built ... I don't want to do this, I want to reuse the artifact from the nexus repository.
Is there a way to doing this using a tool (maven/jenkins plugin, or external)?
Basically, I want to fetch the last release artifact on the repository, and send it to the tomcat manager for dereploying the webapp.
Do I need to setup a delivery job separated from the release job?
Jenkins, especially when combined with a tool like ANT, can do just about anything. It has a lot of plug-ins, and you can always write a script and incorporate it into a Jenkins build. Currently, I use Jenkins to deploy web applications to Windows IIS servers. What you could do here is have a Jenkins build that has your SVN path set in the source control section so that it fetches the latest version when you trigger the build. From there it should be fairly trivial to write an ANT script that copies it over the existing JAR in Tomcat, which will automatically restart it.
Your problem is that you are probably using the Jenkins release plugin, not the "m2 release plugin". The problem with the standard plugin is that it performs the regular build, saves the artifacts, then performs the release. It will then try to deploy the wrong artifacts that it created from the regular build.
The m2 release plugin solves this particular problem. There are some tricky workaround for this problem, but that's how it stands at the moment until this feature is implemented: https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-11120 (log in and vote for it!)