How to Automate Jenkins job configurations as code

Automatically generating Jenkins jobs: Step-by-step guide

1. pip install virtualenv

2. virtualenv .venv

3. source .venv/bin/activate

4. pip install jenkins-job-builder

5. mkdir jenkins-job-auto-create ; cd jenkins-job-auto-create

6. vim jenkins_jobs.ini

   [jenkins]
   user=shuke
   password=aslongas
   url=http://jenkins.shuke.com:8080
   
   [job_builder]
   ignore_cache=True
   keep_descriptions=False
   include_path=.
   recursive=False
   allow_duplicates=False

7. vim project_pipeline_test01.yaml

   (base) ➜  jenkins_jobs cat project_pipeline_test01.yaml
   - job:
       name: Jenkins-auto-config
       project-type: pipeline
       dsl: |
         @Library('CIPipelineUtilities') _
         testSuite {
             envName="BTS_EU"
             suiteName="MonitorTest"
         }

8. jenkins-jobs –conf jenkins_jobs.ini update project_pipeline_test01.yaml

   (base) ➜  jenkins_jobs jenkins-jobs --conf jenkins_jobs.ini update project_pipeline_test01.yaml
   INFO:jenkins_jobs.cli.subcommand.update:Updating jobs in ['project_pipeline_test01.yaml'] ([])
   INFO:jenkins_jobs.builder:Number of jobs generated:  1
   INFO:jenkins_jobs.builder:Reconfiguring jenkins job Jenkins-auto-config
   INFO:jenkins_jobs.cli.subcommand.update:Number of jobs updated: 1
   INFO:jenkins_jobs.builder:Number of views generated:  0
   INFO:jenkins_jobs.cli.subcommand.update:Number of views updated: 0

9. Jenkins job created automatic

10. folder-jobs.yaml

    - job-template:
        name: 'folder-{name}'
        project-type: folder
    
    - project:
        name: devops
        jobs:
        - 'folder-{name}'

11. create folder-jobs

    (base) ➜  jenkins_jobs jenkins-jobs --conf jenkins_jobs.ini update folder-jobs.yaml
    INFO:jenkins_jobs.cli.subcommand.update:Updating jobs in ['folder-jobs.yaml'] ([])
    INFO:jenkins_jobs.builder:Number of jobs generated:  1
    INFO:jenkins_jobs.builder:Reconfiguring jenkins job folder-devops
    INFO:jenkins_jobs.cli.subcommand.update:Number of jobs updated: 1
    INFO:jenkins_jobs.builder:Number of views generated:  0
    INFO:jenkins_jobs.cli.subcommand.update:Number of views updated: 0

12. install
    jenkins-autojobs

13. Quck start Guide
    Quck Start
    Job Definitions