How to Restart a Failed Job?

[John Bobinyec]

Consider a job which consists of many sequential steps.  When the processing in a particular step encounters an error, execution of the step and consequently the job, stops.  If the error condition can be corrected, what's the best way to resume/restart the job from the point of failure?  It is undesirable to start the job from scratch since it could have taken a considerable amount of time to get to the point of failure.

Thanks,
jb

[Victor Martinez]

Hi,

Afaik Jenkins jobs are atomic by default, you can split those sequential steps in a list of downstream jobs instead. If the UI is a bit cucumber some you can configure your jobs based on the configuration as code paradigm (JobDSL, Jenkins builder, Workflow...)

Jenkins workflow does provide a restore point feature, but I haven't used it yet so maybe someone else can provide further details.

There is a plugin to rerun a flacky job or something like that but probably that's not your case.

I hope it helps

Cheers