Building/Deploying on new tag

[Gavin Mogan]

So my flow as it stands now.

1) Do some work

2) Happy with work

3) Tag a release (v1.0.1 for example)

4) Create a docker image

5) Publish to kubernetes.

In jenkins, I've gotten 4 and 5 working very nicely in pipelines, but it'll either work manually, or on every commit. I remember in freestyle builds, there was a way to say "only include certain branches/tags". Is there something like this in pipeline yet?

Looking at https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-34395 it seems like the work around is to do a filter in one grovy script, to notify another script.

So for now I'm doing

stage('checkout') {

            git credentialsId: '--credentials--', url: '---giturl---'

            versionStr = sh(returnStdout: true, script: 'git tag | sort -V').trim().split("\n")[0]

            sh "git checkout ${versionStr}"

}

Am I missing something? is there a better way of doing this?

Gavin