Set up Jenkins-BlueOcean for non-trivial C++ project with dependencies

[{ peetonn }]

Hi there! 

I need to setup pipeline (-s) for the project, which is a little more complicated than ./configure && make && make install. Thus, unfortunately for me, I find all the tutorials in this universe on this topic useless, as they demo simplest unrealistic "hello-world" examples which are intuitive to configure using Pipeline even without a tutorial.

I'd like to hear opinions from experienced folks, whether I can use Jenkins+BlueOcean tor the library (link to full build instructions -- a set of shell commands) I'm working on. Here are the specifics and requirements of the project:

-- it has dependencies: some can be installed using package managers (brew, apt-get), some should be compiled from source (WebRTC, OpenFEC, ndn-cpp);

-- it builds for 3 platforms (macOS, Linux and Android), for each platform, there are subtleties in build steps for the dependencies, but generally, the steps are similar;

-- I need to save artifacts for compiled dependencies so that they can be re-used for future faster builds (on the development branch) as well as distributed to the public;

-- the following automatic builds need to be maintained:

--- nightly-master,

--- nightly-dev,

--- release-master (when new version tag added in the master branch),

--- change-master (new commit/merge in master),

--- change-dev (new commit in development branch),

--- change-dependency (when any of dependencies' source code changes).

Please, I'd appreciate any opinion on whether it's possible with Jenkins+BlueOcean and how shall I start on that. Thanks.

As the beginning -- I currently set up Jenkins with 3 nodes (macOS 10.13, macOS 10.14, Ubuntu 14.04) labeled macOS and linux. I however, do not understand how should I tell pipeline to stick to one node and do things a slightly differently for different platforms.

Thanks,