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= Pipeline Global Library for ci.jenkins.io

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This repository contains a series of steps and variables for use inside of the Jenkins project's own link:https://ci.jenkins.io[Jenkins] instance(s).

Check link:https://github.com/jenkins-infra/documentation/blob/master/ci.adoc[this description] of available services.

== Useful steps:

=== buildPlugin

Applies the appropriate defaults for building a Maven-based plugin project on Linux and Windows.

You are advised to be using a link:https://github.com/jenkinsci/plugin-pom/blob/master/README.md[2.x or newer parent POM].

.Jenkinsfile [source,groovy]

buildPlugin( forkCount: '1C', // run this number of tests in parallel for faster feedback. If the number terminates with a 'C', the value will be multiplied by the number of available CPU cores useContainerAgent: true, // Set to false if you need to use Docker for containerized tests configurations: [ [platform: 'linux', jdk: 21], [platform: 'windows', jdk: 17], ])

==== Optional arguments

  • repo (default: null inherit from Multibranch) - custom Git repository to check out
  • useContainerAgent (default: false) - uses a link:https://github.com/jenkins-infra/documentation/blob/main/ci.adoc#container-agents[Container agent] instead of a Virtual Machine: usually faster to start and generates less costs for the project ** Please note that the implementation of "containers" can be changed over time
  • forkCount (default: null) - Execute tests with forkCount Java virtual machines. If no value is specified, a single JVM is used. Common values include 0.45C, 1, 2, and 1C. If you terminate the value with a 'C', that value will be multiplied by the number of available CPU cores. This controls the number of JVM's used for the test code. Additional JVM's will be launched if the test code starts agents or uses RealJenkinsRule.
  • failFast (default: true) - instruct Maven tests to fail fast
  • platforms (default: ['linux', 'windows']) - Labels matching platforms to execute the steps against in parallel
  • jdkVersions (default: [8]) - JDK version numbers, must match a version number jdk tool installed
  • jenkinsVersions: (default: [null]) - a matrix of Jenkins baseline versions to build/test against in parallel (null means default, only available for Maven projects)
  • configurations: An alternative way to specify platforms, jdkVersions and jenkinsVersions (that can not be combined with any of them).
  • useArtifactCachingProxy: (default: true) - if set to false, artifacts will not use one of the artifact caching proxy depending on the agent provider (Azure, DigitalOcean or AWS), and will directly use repo.jenkins-ci.org instead (discouraged as less reliable and consuming bandwidth)

** Those options will run the build for all combinations of their values. While that is desirable in many cases, configurations permit to provide a specific combinations of label and java/jenkins versions to use + [source,groovy]

buildPlugin(/.../, configurations: [ [ platform: "linux", jdk: "17", jenkins: null ], [ platform: "windows", jdk: "17", jenkins: null ], [ platform: "linux", jdk: "21", jenkins: "2.436" ] ])

NOTE: The recordIssues steps of the warnings plugin and the recordCoverage steps of the coverage plugin run on the first platform/jdkVersion,jenkinsVersion combination only. So in the example below it will run for linux/jdk11 but not on jdk17.

Usage:

.Jenkinsfile [source,groovy]

buildPlugin(platforms: ['linux'], jdkVersions: [11, 17], jacoco: [sourceCodeRetention: 'MODIFIED'], pit: [skip: false], checkstyle: [qualityGates: [[threshold: 1, type: 'NEW', unstable: true]]], pmd: [trendChartType: 'TOOLS_ONLY', qualityGates: [[threshold: 1, type: 'NEW', unstable: true]]])

=== buildPluginWithGradle()

Builds a Jenkins plugin using Gradle. The implementation follows the standard build/test/archive pattern. The method targets compatibility with link:https://github.com/jenkinsci/gradle-jpi-plugin[Gradle JPI Plugin], and it may not work for other use-cases.

==== Optional arguments

  • repo (default: null inherit from Multibranch) - custom Git repository to check out
  • failFast (default: true) - instruct the build to fail fast when one of the configurations fail
  • platforms (default: ['linux', 'windows']) - Labels matching platforms to execute the steps against in parallel
  • jdkVersions (default: [8]) - JDK version numbers, must match a version number jdk tool installed
  • configurations: An alternative way to specify platforms, jdkVersions (that can not be combined with any of them) ** Those options will run the build for all combinations of their values. While that is desirable in many cases, configurations permit to provide a specific combinations of label and java/jenkins versions to use

[source,groovy]

buildPluginWithGradle(/.../, configurations: [ [ platform: "linux", jdk: "8" ], [ platform: "windows", jdk: "8"], ])

==== Limitations

Not all features of buildPlugin() for Maven are supported in the gradle flow. Examples of not supported features:

=== infra.is(Trusted|Release|Infra|'')CiController()

Returns if the pipeline is running on the internal "(trusted|release|infra|'').ci.jenkins.io" Jenkins controller.

.Jenkinsfile [source,groovy]

if (infra.isTrustedCiController()) { /* perform some trusted action like a deployment / } else if (infra.isCiController()) { / only perform untrusted action like a lint / build / test */ }

=== infra.ensureInNode(nodeLabels, body)

Ensures that the given code block is runs in a node with the specified labels

.Jenkinsfile [source,groovy]

infra.ensureInNode('docker,java') { sh 'docker -v' }

=== runBenchmarks

Runs JMH benchmarks and archives benchmark reports on highmem nodes.

Supported parameters:

artifacts:: (Optional) If artifacts is not null, invokes archiveArtifacts with the given string value.

==== Example

[source, groovy]

runBenchmarks('jmh-report.json')

=== buildDockerAndPublishImage(imageName, config)

Lints, Builds, then publishes a docker image.

Adds a bunch of build args you can use in your docker image:

  • GIT_COMMIT_REV - The commit that triggered this build
  • GIT_SCM_URL - Url to repo
  • BUILD_DATE - Date that the image was built (now)

Supported parameters:

imageName:: Name of the docker image to build

config:: (Optional) map of extra flags

  • agentLabels: String expression for the labels the agent must match
  • automaticSemanticVersioning: Do not automagically increase semantic version by default
  • includeImageNameInTag: Set to true for multiple semversioned images built in parallel, will include the image name in tag to avoid conflict
  • dockerfile: override the default dockerfile of Dockerfile
  • targetplatforms: defined the platforms to build as TARGET
  • nextVersionCommand: Commmand line used to retrieve the next version (default 'jx-release-version')
  • gitCredentials: override Credential ID for tagging and creating release
  • imageDir: Relative path to the context directory for the Docker build
  • registryNamespace: empty = autodiscover based on the current controller, but can override the smart default of jenkinsciinfra/ or jenkins4eval/
  • unstash: Allow to unstash files if not empty
  • dockerBakeFile: Allow to build from a bake file instead
  • dockerBakeTarget: Allow to specify a docker bake target other than 'default'
  • disablePublication: (Optional, default to false) Allow to disable tagging and publication of container image and GitHub release

==== Example

[source, groovy]

buildDockerAndPublishImage('plugins-site-api') buildDockerAndPublishImage('inbound-agent-maven:jdk8-nanoserver', [ dockerfile: 'maven/jdk8/Dockerfile.nanoserver', agentLabels: 'docker-windows-2019 && amd64', targetplatforms: 'windows/amd64', imageDir: 'maven/jdk8', ])

== Contribute

=== Requirements

  • (Open)JDK v8
  • Maven 3.6.x

=== Testing a pull request

By adding @Library('pipeline-library@pull/<your-pr-number>/head') _ at the top of a Jenkinsfile from a repository built on one of the *.ci.jenkins.io instances, you can test your pipeline library pull request on ci.jenkins.io.

A repository is dedicated for these kind of tests: https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins-infra-test-plugin/