jenkins-job-manager

Create a jenkins job from template and backup existing job using Jenkins CLI

How to create a job

1. Add your project to the jobs.csv file (format - job_name,path_in_svn)
2. Define JENKINS_HOST in generate.py scripts.
3. Run generate.py script to generate a jenkins job's xml file (name : job_name.xml)

    python generate.py

4. Login to Jenkins CLI

    java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s JENKINS_HOST login --username YOUR_ACCOUNT_LOGIN

5. Copy/paste the output of generate.py script to the console to manage the corresponding job.
   By default script prints create-job instruction, replace it with update-job to overwrite existing job.

    java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s JENKINS_HOST create-job MYJOB < MYJOB.xml
    java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s JENKINS_HOST update-job MYJOB < MYJOB.xml

How to backup a job

1. Add your project to the jobs.csv file (format - job_name,path_in_svn)
2. Define JENKINS_HOST in backup.py scripts.
3. Run backup.py script to get the instructions

    python backup.py

4. Copy/paste the output of backup.py script to the console to manage the corresponding job.

java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s JENKINS_HOST get-job MYJOB > data/MYJOB.xml

Known issues

1. Option -noCertificateCheck can be useful to avoid issues with specific certificates.
2. Please ignore following warning, it seems not affecting the process:

Skipping HTTPS certificate checks altogether. Note that this is not secure at all. [WARN] Failed to authenticate with your SSH keys. Proceeding as anonymous