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Setup Jenkins

v1.0.0

Setup Jenkins

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Setup Jenkins

Set up Jenkins container

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

 
              
- name: Setup Jenkins

              
  uses: snow-actions/[email protected]
Learn more about this action in snow-actions/setup-jenkins

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Test

Setup Jenkins

Set up Jenkins container.

Usage

  1. Copy $JENKINS_HOME/jobs/*/config.xml from existing Jenkins to jenkins_home/ in your repository
    or you can put jenkins_home/jenkins.yaml if Jenkins Configuration as Code (JCasC)
  2. Create a workflow with the jenkins_home path
steps:
  - uses: actions/checkout@v3
  - uses: snow-actions/[email protected]
    with:
      jenkins_home: jenkins_home
  - run: wget $JENKINS_URL/jnlpJars/jenkins-cli.jar
  - run: java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -webSocket help
  - run: java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -webSocket build job-1 -f -v -p param_1=p1

Inputs

See action.yml

Name Description Default Required
jenkins_image_tag Jenkins image tag lts-jdk11 no
jenkins_home Jenkins home path which will be
mounted to /var/jenkins_home.
Set '' if you don't want to mount.		 ${{ runner.temp }}/jenkins_home no
env_file Jenkins container env_file path - no

Output environment variables

Name Description
JENKINS_HOME Path to jenkins_home
JENKINS_VERSION Jenkins version
JENKINS_URL Jenkins URL: http://localhost:8080
COMPOSE_FILE Docker Compose variable as same as --file, -f option
You can access Jenkins container by docker compose exec jenkins <command>

Examples

Workflow

See test.yml

Jenkins Configuration as Code (JCasC)

See jenkins.yaml

Documents

Supported

Runners

  • ubuntu-20.04
  • ubuntu-18.04
  • self-hosted

Events

  • Any

Dependencies

Contributing

Welcome.