How to share local Maven repo between nodes?

[Torsten Reinhard]

Hi,

I have a large build & deploy pipeline with some stages, running on different nodes. I´m using stash/unstash for transfering the files (sources) between the nodes
- but how do I share the artifacts of the local M2 repository so dependencies can be resolved properly?

node(..) {
  ..
  stage("Build") {
    // build it
    sh("mvn clean install....")
  }
  ..
  stash ( name: 'workspace', useDefaultExcludes: false, excludes: "**/target/**/*.class, **/target/surefire-reports/**")
}

node(..) {
  ..
  stage("Deploy") {
     sh("deploy.sh.....")
  }
  ..
}

node(..) {
  unstash( name: 'workspace')
  stage("Test") {
    ..
    sh("mvn test -Pit..")
    ..
  }
}

Is there a way (without declarative pipeline) to "reuse" the same node like before? Or do I have to stash/unstash the local repo or parts of it, too?

Any other ideas ?

Thanx for your responses,

Torsten

[Robert Hales]

You can caputre the node name in the first time you use the node and then specify it as the node label in the following node steps. 

[Torsten Reinhard]

Thanx, now I´m doing something like:

String buildNode
node() {
    buildNode = env.NODE_NAME
    echo "performing build on node ${buildNode}"
}
checkpoint("built")
node('other') {
    echo "running on any other node, currently it´s ${env.NODE_NAME}"
}
checkpoint("deployed")
node( buildNode ) {
    echo "running on ${buildNode} again - it´s ${env.NODE_NAME}"
}