Questions tagged [jenkins]
Jenkins is an open-source Continuous Integration server that is easily extensible and has a rich library of plug-ins.
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Release pipeline - Which artifact goes in production?
Below is the GitFlow workflow, we are using for a project.
So, in our project master branch currently has only one git commit with just a Readme file. develop branch is forked from that commit. As of ...
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When to write a Jenkins plugin?
We are using Jenkins extensively. We have several jobs, for building and testing. Our problem is that the current email notifications are not so good, so we are improving that. Basically, we are ...
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Deploy a NodeJs (FrontEnd) and a Spring (BackEnd) project as one artefact
I have a current project which consist out of two independently developed projects:
Spring REST as back end
Angular as front end
I do have a Jenkins instance available for building my projects and I'...
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Finding convincing arguments to explain a poorly designed continuous integration pipeline
I'm designing a continuous integration pipeline using Bitbucket & Jenkins with only master and feature branches. I'm failing to find convincing arguments to the fact that my design is better.
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shared CD (Continuous Deployment) for multiple Git repositories
Long story short
What is the best way to design a shared CD for multiple Git repositories (frontend and backend)?
I'm struggling to find the best design for our CD.
The hole picture (The details ...
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Organizing Jenkins around SVN branches and deployment environments
Current setup
We currently have one Jenkins server that automates deployments for about 15 different Java web applications. Each application has three deployment environments on separate Linux boxes.
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What are Build Teams, Build Farms and Build Servers?
I was watching this video to learn about how to use Docker and Jenkins.
This guy immediately started talking about concepts I never heard before (well, I'm still in college), which really caught my ...
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How to test web service
I want to test my web service/web method not by using SOAP but with Junit or other framework. The first solution that I have founded is to create stub of my project and use a client to call this ...
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Jenkins: rsync from built workspace or pull from original repository and build again
I'm currently setting up a Jenkins pipeline for a web application and am wondering which methods of deployment are most common or recommended.
Currently Jenkins polls the SCM for new commits and ...
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Are scrum and a stable development build a contradiction?
I'm part of a development group with 5 teams, total of about 40 developers. We're following the Scrum methodology, with 3-week sprints. We have a continuous integration setup (Jenkins), with a build ...
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Deploy Jenkins manually or using orchestration?
So for my company's deployment pipeline (which is evolving towards CI+CD), I'm being asked to deploy a Jenkins server.
As it happens, all the staging and production servers are already being deployed ...
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Best practices for marking build tarballs as unit/component test passed
During our current build process, we have C code that gets compiled and archived together with some Python code in a tarball. That tarball represents a commit (that can be or not be a release commit).
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Using private NuGet repository and Jenkins to handle dependencies
I am experimenting with using a private NuGet repository and jenkins to deal with dependencies.
Let's say we have exe A and libraries B,C and D.
Exe A depends on library B which depends on C and D.
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How to keep track of maven dependency updates in projects?
How do you keep track of maven dependency versions?
Let's say you are using version 1.0.5 of an library.
<dependency>
<groupId>groupIdName</groupId>
<artifactId>...
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Build on each commit - Continuous delivery
Just watched a video about continous delivery and there it was suggested to trigger a build and execute unit test on each commit.
For our team of 10 developers and a build time of at least 10 minues I ...
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Stronger Unit Tests Unearth Many Bugs, What to do re Validations?
I recently upgraded some tests that unearthed a lot of previously hidden bugs. The bugs are rare and low priority, but they are still bugs and will eventually need to be fixed.
How should I handle ...
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Team Services - Jenkins build server
Currently in our business we use Team Services in the cloud with a single self hosted build agent which runs locally on a server in our office.
As we are expanding and taking on more work there is an ...
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Do CI servers allow Maven to generate content outside target directory?
I'm maintaining a multi-module Maven project, I have a module that contains some tests, the tests run smoothly locally, but on the integration server they don't, and the logs shows only FileNotFound ...
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Is this the wrong environment for CI?
Background
Team/Project Size
Currently at our company, we have a team of 3 developers. We each have our own projects that we work on. So, we never have more than one person working on a software ...
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An elegant way to store build counter [closed]
We use Git and Jenkins as our build&release system and each build is assigned a version number which looks like this: 6.0.12345. Here, the 12345 part is a counter which increments with each build. ...
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How to deal with tremendous number of failing tests? [closed]
I'm working in the development of an old project written in Java. We have more than 10 million LOC and, even worse, more than 4000 functional tests.
The tests, scheduled by Hudson, are failing like ...
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CI Server vs Build Server [closed]
Forgive my ignorance, but I'm having a difficult time finding an answer to this. We currently use TFS and a TFS Build server. I was looking at other build server options and was wondering if products ...
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Conventions for revision control with Maven/Jenkins
For a software project I am working on, we have a 'dev => QA => production' methodology. That is, we create a release candidate (deployed to Artifactory), give it to QA (deploy to QA systems and a QA ...
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Why does Jenkins warn you if you tell it to check for changes every minute?
In the past when I've set up Jenkins to look for version control changes every second by using the cron format of "* * * * *" (or something like that). When you do this, it gives you a warning and ...
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Scheduling a Jenkins job to only run integration test [closed]
My current company has a Jenkins/DotCi setup. Our current process for CI is when dev pushes to github, jenkins runs unit tests on all branches and reports back to us via email if the unit tests failed....
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Continuous Integration for different languages [closed]
So, I understand Continuous Integration in theory, and have used Beanstalk. However, I've been charged with creating the process at my current PHP shop.
My hope was maybe PHPCI, since it looked ...
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Is there some way to mark which branch is the latest in subversion?
We're reworking our process with subversion at the moment, and one of the things we're doing is making branches for each release target in our demo environment so that you can test a release that has ...
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Where to audit a codebase for dangerous code use [closed]
Not sure Programmers Stack Exchange is the place to ask this question, but thought I'd give it a go.
Our team had a near miss recently with a nasty error where a method call had been added to the ...
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Tomcat + Spring + CI workflow [closed]
We're starting our very first project with Spring and java web stack. This project will be mainly about rewriting quite large ERP/CRM from Zend Framework to Java. Important factor in my question is ...
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Coping with build order requirements in automated builds
I have three Scala packages being built as separate sbt projects in separate repos with a dependency graph like this:
M---->D
^ ^
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+--+--+
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S
S is a service. ...
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Jenkins: .NET website XML transforms, but no .sln or build file
We're setting up Jenkins for CI and deployments. We have .NET website that isn't managed through visual studio. Its a Logi Analytics application, so we develop exclusively through LogiStudio. As ...
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What is the benefit of Continuous Integration over make?
We are evaluating and setting up Continuous Integration for our PHP project. Each of the Continuous Integration tools has their own proprietary "build language" which will run many commands and check ...
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Dynamic git URL for Jenkins builds
We internally use GitHub Enterprise and Jenkins. If I push on the main repository it is automatically build without and the Commit is marked as correct (just as Travis does this).
However, I want to ...
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Scheduled website testing: Searching for a lightweight, simple solution
Scheduled website testing: Searching for a simple solution.
One of my clients is having some tens of sites, with webform-based landing pages. He wants to daily test 3 different use-cases pre site, in ...
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Jenkins to automate deployment of ASP.NET applications
Is there any possibility to automate/semi-automate deployments of ASP.NET web applications using Jenkins. It can be under controlled or uncontrolled environments, for uncontrolled user needs to enter ...
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Jenkins Paramerized Trigger + Copy Artifact
I'm working on setting up Jenkins to handle our release builds. A release build consists of a Windows installer that includes some binaries that must be built on Linux.
Here's what I have so far:
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How should I expand Jenkins to help me release?
Pushing new Sparkle releases of our internal apps is a pain. I have to make the build, make the release notes file, sign the .zip with the private key, and add a new entry to the appcast file tying ...
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iOS: Using Jenkins for nightly internal builds (TestFlight), plus frequent client builds [closed]
I'm an iOS dev, working for a small agency. I'm currently on a few smaller projects where I'm the only developer. We recently acquired a Jenkins server, but each project is left to fend for themselves ...
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What is Continous Integration (CI) and how is it useful? [closed]
Can some one explain to me the concept of Continious Integration, how it works in an easy to understand way? And why should a company adopt CI in their code delivery workflow? I am a developer and my ...
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Is it a good practice to capture build artifacts in Artifactory that Jenkins produces?
We use Jenkins to run continuous integration builds. The output of these builds might be EAR files, WAR files, or just a collection of files that are TAR'd up.
To this point we have used Jenkins to ...
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How often should we launch SONAR analysis?
I successfully installed Jenkins and then Sonar to go with continuous integration. The firsts reports are not that good in term of rules violations ,comments, code duplication ...
I set Jenkins to ...
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Recommended methodology for working with shared libraries and Mercurial
I work in a small team of developers who all collaborate on several Zend PHP projects. We are using Mercurial with a collection of upstream repositories, as well as Jenkins for centralized testing ...
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git, maven and jenkins - versioning, dev and release builds workflow
What is the preferred way to do the following with git, maven and jenkins:
I am developping an application, which I would like to maintain "dev" and "release" branches. I would like jenkins to build ...
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Continuous Integration : which frequency?
I've always launched builds after each commit, but on this new project, the architects just asked me to change the frequency to "one build every 15 minutes", and I just can't understand why that would ...
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Jenkins without Automated Tests
I know that Jenkins is focused on continous building/testing, monitoring of batch jobs about the project. We have a legacy project which such condition :
1)Has a development team.
2)It has SVN for ...
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Should the deploy script be an artifact of the build?
This is a web project written in Java.
So, I'm writing the build and the deploy scripts. To create the build, I used ant. The continuous build is done with Jenkins.
The build generates 3 different ...
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How to create an extendable web application?
How would you implement an extendable web application? What I'm thinking about is a web application similar to Jenkins or Hudson which provides plug-in support. While it's obvious to me how plug-ins ...
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Code Analysis & Reporting: Maven vs. Jenkins
My team (~10 devs) has recently migrated to Maven (multi-module project, ca. 50 modules) and we now use Jenkins for continuous integration. As the overall setup is running, we are planning to include ...
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Setting up CI with [Jenkins, TeamCity, etc] - which source code control? [closed]
I am bound and determined to setup CI at work. I have played with Jenkins, and will download TeamCity when I get home (damn you work enforced download filters!) I have no IT support, and only so much ...
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New cloud development workflow using Github, Cloud9ide and CloudFoundry
So time is changing towards cloud development/computing.
I'm trying to get the new "cloud" workflow based on the services I'm going to use: Github, Cloud9ide and CloudFoundry.
Here is what is on my ...
