One Jenkinsfile per repo in multi-branch workflows?

[David Aldrich]

Hi

 

As the free-style Multi-Branch Project plugin is deprecated, I am experimenting with the Multibranch Pipeline job type.

 

With the Multi-Branch Project plugin it was possible to have multiple multi-branch jobs.  We took advantage of that and had multiple jobs to build different executables in the repo and to run different regression tests, with different polling periods.

 

It seems that the Multibranch Pipeline supports only one build script  per repo, defined by the JenkinsFile in the root directory.

 

This seems to me to be restrictive.  What is the thinking behind it and is it possible to define multiple multi-branch pipeline jobs per repo?

 

Best regards

 

David

 

[Yotam Shapira]

There seems to be some work done in this regard, but it seems to be lagging, so I can't tell if it's going to stay this way or not.
https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/plugins/servlet/mobile#issue/JENKINS-34561

[David Aldrich]

> There seems to be some work done in this regard, but it seems to be lagging,
> so I can't tell if it's going to stay this way or not.

Thanks for your answer. Good to know it is being worked on.

David

[Matt Stave]

You can use a JobDSL statement in the Jenkinsfile in the root of your repo to generate other jobs.  Those jobs wouldn't be triggered by subsequent repo changes, unless you add a call to them in your main Jenkinsfile - they also could be triggered on-demand, through replay, a cron ...

--- Matt

[Michael Kobit]

Be careful if you do use the job DSL as you will have to deal with Groovy sandbox permissions for job creation.

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