Re-using a declarative pipeline in multiple repositories via a Shared Library

Do you have an identical declarative pipeline used in multiple repositories and you find yourself updating these multiple Jenkinsfile copies every time you make a change? Starting September 2017 Shared Libraries in Jenkins now support declarative pipelines. This means you can now load the same … Continue reading →

Explicitly triggering a Jenkins job using a keyword

Testing is important. To that end a developer should implement unit tests to assure any implemented code does what it is meant to do, and also integration tests with networking mocks to, for example, make sure endpoints do what they're supposed to do. Then there are end-to-end tests to assure that … Continue reading →

Skipping builds in a multi-branch job

Skipping builds in Jenkins is possible, there's a "CI Skip" plug-in for Jenkins, but this plug-in doesn't work with multi-branch jobs... How can you skip builds then in such a case? Here's my take on it. Of course, feel free to modify it for your pipeline's needs. I originally wrote about this … Continue reading →

Tips for declarative pipelines in Jenkins

A few months back the guys over at Jenkins released a new take on creating pipelines dubbed "Declarative". You can read all about it in this blog post. Being the new guy, I went for it as I knew nothing else. I'm glad I did, though, because I do like it. It allowed me to quickly ramp up and create … Continue reading →

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Re-using a declarative pipeline in multiple repositories via a Shared Library

Explicitly triggering a Jenkins job using a keyword

Skipping builds in a multi-branch job

Tips for declarative pipelines in Jenkins