Utility jobs

[shanz]

Lets say I have a sequence of jobs.
One of the jobs is a utility job which I want to call from several
other jobs. How can this be achieved?

EG:

Job 1
Job 2
Call Job Utility
Job3
Job 4
Call Job Utility
Job 5
Job 6

etc

Job Utility has to specify the following job to trigger but this needs
to vary.

[Didier Durand]

Hi,

The Parametrized Trigger Plugin (https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/
JENKINS/Parameterized+Trigger+Plugin) seems to be the way to go for
you.

regards

didier

[shanz]

Didier,

Thanks for replying.
I already use the parameterized trigger plugin but didn't see how to
achieve this scenario with it.
Maybe I need to choose "Block for Completion"?

The plugin page says, "This triggering mechanism can be used both as a
post-build step or as a build step, in which case you can also block
for the completion of the triggered builds. This lets you create a
"function call" like semantics."

That sounds like what I'm after so I'll revisit it again!

Duncan

[shanz]

I am having problems with this.
When I tick "Block until the triggered projects finish their builds",
the called job hangs with "
pending - Waiting for next available executor".
It works if I don't tick the "Block until.." option.
What am I missing?

Thanks.

[shanz]

I have changed the "# of executors" from 1 to 2 to fix the problem.
It just so happens that my Virtual Machine server Jenkins server has a
dual-core processor.
I assume this means I am able to change the number of executors to 2.
What if it had been a single-core VM - how would the blocking work?

[danny staple]

You can add as many executors as you like. They don't represent cores. More like how much load you allow on the system.

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