03_Manage_Projects
In this lab we will explore how we can manage Project in Jenkins :
- Create a Freestyle Jenkins project with a continuous execution every 5 minutes.
- Modify the above Jenkins project to get any latest committed code in the last 5 minutes.
- Create a downstream maven project that will build the artifact and saves the artifact. Make sure that it uses the code checked out from the parent job.
- Create a downstream project that will clean up the workspace.
- Ensure that none of these 3 projects can have more than 10 execution and that also a maximum of 5 days.
- Modify the first project to take a branch name as the name so that an end-user can run the project for a specific branch.
- Go to Jenkins main page and click on the "New Item" at the left-hand bar of Jenkins
- Click on the "Freestyle Job" and give a name to the Jenkins job
- Go under the "Source Code Management" and select the Git option and provide the repository URL of the worked repo.
- Then go to the "Build Triggers" section and select the "Build periodically" option and provide the cron expression for every 5 minutes
- Then save and run the job by clicking on the "Build Now" option.
- Once the job is built click on the blue ball which is along with the build-id.
- Also, you can wait for 5 minutes and see if the job is triggered by itself or not.
- Go to the configure option of the Jenkins job
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Disable the "Build periodically" option first.
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Then go to the "Build Triggers" section and select the "Poll SCM" option and provide the cron expression for every 5 minutes
- Save the job and go to the forked repo. Add a blank line in the README.md file and wait if the job gets triggered by itself or not.
- Go to the configure option of the Jenkins job of existing job "<team_name>-checkout"
- In the "General" click on the "Advanced" section
- After that enable the check on "Custom Workspace" and provide the path of your workspace like:-
/tmp/<team_name>
- Then save and run the job by clicking on the "Build Now" option.
- After that, create a new job with the name <team_name>-maven-project and click on the Freestyle project job type
- In the "General" click on the "Advanced" section
- After that enable the check on "Custom Workspace" and provide the path of your workspace like:-
/tmp/<team_name>
- Go to the Build Section of the job and select the Execute shell.
- Paste the snippet in Execute Shell block
cd SampleJavaWebApp; mvn clean package
- Go to the previous job "<team_name>-checkout" and click on Configure. Then go the "Post-Build Actions" and click on "Build other projects".
- Provide the name of the Maven Jenkins project like - <team_name>-maven-project. Then save and run the job
- Create a new job with the name <team_name>-workspace-cleanup and click on the freestyle project job type
- Go to the "Post-build Actions" and add a post-build action
- Click on "Delete workspace when build is done"
- In the "General" click on the "Advanced" section
- After that enable the check on "Custom Workspace" and provide the path of your workspace like:-
/tmp/<team_name>
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Save the Job
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Once the changes are done go to the "<team_name>-checkout" job and go to the "Post-build Actions" and provide the name of the cleanup job with a comma "<team_name>-workspace-cleanup" and then save the job.
- Click on the "Build Now" option of "<team_name>-checkout" job
- Go and configure the all jobs "<team_name>-checkout", "<team_name>-maven-project" and "<team_name>-workspace-cleanup" and under the "General Section" click on the "Discard old builds"
- Go and configure the <team_name>-checkout job and under the "General Section" click on the "This project is parameterised".
- Click on "String Parameter" and provide the name "BRANCH_NAME" and Default value "master"
- Click on the "Build with Parameters" and build the job.
