I am trying to build multiple Jenkins jobs, e.g. job1, job2 where jobs2 is downstream job1, each one needs to run on multiple platforms, e.g. Win, Mac, Unix
I need job2 on Mac to start once job1 on Mac has finished, same for others... but cannot find a simple way to do this simple thing!
I tried the Matrix configuration, parametrized trigger, extended trigger, NodeLabel, but non did the right job
This task looks simple but I could not achieve! Any help is really appreciated
Have you tried the Build Pipeline Plugin or Pipeline Plugin to help address this? You can also consider creating these pipeline dynamically depending on job dependency and then run.
Seems like a fit to me.
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I have a scenario where I would like a build to start running on one agent (Job 1), and then after doing some work, I'd like it to run a step on a special agent (pool) of machines with specially licensed software. (Job 2). When that is done I'd like the rest of the build to complete on the original agent (Job 3).
I have been able to use "Variable Tools for Azure DevOps Services" to successfully pass any number of variables between agent jobs, even when they are running on different machines. It is no problem for me to pass a UNC path from Job1 to Job2 / Job3, etc.
However, what I am seeing is that no matter what I do, agent jobs are always running in parallel, and there is no way to get them to run serially, unless they are locked to the same agent on the same machine, which defeats the whole purpose.
Does anyone know of a means to accomplish this? Right now in tests, I have to use "Start-Sleep" or something similar, and repeatedly monitor an external event. A terribly inelegant work-around.
I found the answer. A job properties contains a field called "dependencies". You can make it serial by setting a dependency on the previous job.
In Azure Devops for the agent job you will get below options
You can select any option based on your requirements.
There is a list of env variables available for GoCD at:
https://docs.gocd.org/current/faq/environment_variables.html
However I'm looking for something like: GO_BUILD_ERROR or similar.
I would like to have the failure reason or message when a build fails to pass this to an external script or message.
There seems to be nothing in the documentation.
GoCD doesn't have any such variables. The reason I feel is mostly because GoCD is very generic in terms of what commands constitute a build for a material. You might want to parse the logs manually to figure that out.
Also in the context of GoCD environment variables are used as input to the stages and not as output from them. If you're planning to build a plugin / wrapper for the commands that run consider storing them as properties in the jobs that way they can also be queried upon later if required.
I have a number of different projects, with Jenkins CI jobs configured for each of them to run tests. When I create a new release, I have a second job that coordinates between a number of different jobs that go over each of the modules in the projects and updates the versions and the dependencies in the pom.xml's. I would like to make the "update" job conditional on the status of all the CI jobs - meaning that if one of the CI jobs is not green, then the update job will not run at all.
I had a look at the Run Condition Plugin as well as the Conditional BuildStep Plugin, however it does not seem possible do configure them to be dependent on the status of another Jenkins job.
you could hit the other jobs via the API at [JOB_URL]/lastCompletedBuild/api/json and verify the result for each.
to mess around with this:
curl `[JOB_URL]/lastCompletedBuild/api/json` | jq '.result'
you probably want result to say SUCCESS.
this is not fancy, but you don't want fancy in CI; you want something that is not likely to break when you upgrade jenkins. :)
Have a [https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Multijob+Plugin] ["Multijob Plugin"] ,
In your case, you can add a job in first step and configure in that step, at which result condition of first step, you want to run second step.
Again, in second step, you can configure one/many jobs and can also configure if you want to run them in parallel.
I'm trying to run the same job multiple times with different parameters via a parent job. However, only the first of the triggered jobs runs.
The parent job has the checkbox "Trigger parameterized build on other projects" checked, and there are two triggers created, each with a different parameter value for a parameter x on the downstream job. Job 1 has x=1, Job 2 has x=2. Only job 1 is run!?
What am I missing?
This is a bug in Hudson.
It was reported to Jenkins and fixed there, both in the core and this particular plugin several months ago.
See also the Jenkins vs Hudson discussion on StackOverflow for further reasons to upgrade to Jenkins.
I have a job upstream that executes 4 downstream jobs.
If the upstream job finish successfully the downstream jobs start their execution.
The upstream job, since it finish successfully, gets a blue ball (build result=stable), but even tough the downstream jobs fail (red ball) or are unstable (yellow ball), the upstream job maintain its blue color.
Is there anyway to get the result of the upstream job dependent on the downstream jobs?, i mean, if three downstream jobs get a stable build but one of them get an unstable build, the upstream build result should be unstable.
I found the solution. There is a plugin called Groovy Postbuild pluging that let you execute a Groovy script in the post build phase.
Addind a simple code to the downstream jobs you can modify the upstream overall status.
This is the code you need to add:
upstreamBuilds = manager.build.getUpstreamBuilds();
upstreamJob = upstreamBuilds.keySet().iterator().next();
lastUpstreamBuild = upstreamJob.getLastBuild();
if(lastUpstreamBuild.getResult().isBetterThan(manager.build.result)) {
lastUpstreamBuild.setResult(manager.build.result);
}
You can find more info in the entry of my blog here.
Another option that might work for you is to use the parametrised build plugin. It allows you to have your 4 "downstream" builds as build steps. This means that your "parent" build can fail if any of the child builds do.
We do this when we want to hide complexity for the build-pipeline plugin view.
We had a similar sort of issue and haven't found a perfect solution. A partial solution is to use the Promoted Builds Plugin. Configure it for your upstream project to include some visual indicator when the downstream job finishes. It doesn't change the overall job status, but it does notify us when the downstream job fails.
Perhaps this plugin does what you are looking for?
Jenkins Prerequisite build step Plugin
the work around for my project is to create a new job, which is the down stream of the down streams. We set a post build step "Trigger parameterized build on other projects " in all three of the original downstream jobs. The parameter that parse into the new job depends on the three jobs' status and the parameter will causes the new job react accordingly.
1. Create new job which contains one simple class and one simple test. Both parameters dependens, i.e. class fail if parameter "status" = fail, class pass but test fail if parameter "status"=unstable, etc.
2. Set Trigger parameterized build on other projects for the three original downstream jobs with relevant configurations.
3. Set notification of the new job accordingly.