Trigger Jenkins Job Extension

This extension allows to trigger a Job in the Jenkins instance from the Azure DevOps pipeline.

This extension provides the following task.

trigger-jenkins-job

The task triggers a job identified with the URL in the Jenkins instance. The job in question must be configured to allow remote triggering. To do this, in the job configuration select a "Trigger builds remotely (e.g., from scripts)" build trigger and specify an authentication token for remote trigger. A user whose credentials are used must be able to view Job as well as to run a build. To allow this make sure that the following permissions are set for the user in question:

• Job Workspace
• Job Read
• Job Build

Inputs

jenkinsJobUrl

Required The URL of the the job in question should be without final /build part. For example: https://jenkins.iktech.io/job/test Default: N/A

jenkinsUsername

Required The valid Jenkins user name that has access to a job it is triggering Default: N/A

jenkinsApiToken

Required The valid Jenkins API token for the user account. Default: N/A

authenticationToken

Required The authentication token specified in the trigger definition Default: N/A

waitForResponse

Optional boolean flag instructing task to wait for the Jenkins Job outcome Default: true

waitTimeout

Optional response timeout in seconds. If waitForResponse is false it is ignored. Otherwise, extension waits for the prescribed number of seconds and if Jenkins Job is not finished by that time, this task fails. Setting waitTimeout to -1 specifies no timeout. Default: -1

parameters

Optional job parameters Default: N/A

Example

Before adding this task to your pipeline, set a secret with the user credentials and authentication token in your project. Then, you can trigger Jenkins Job using following task:

- task: trigger-jenkins-job@1
  inputs:
    jenkinsJobUrl: 'https://jenkins.iktech.io/job/test'
    jenkinsUsername: 'test'
    jenkinsApiToken: '<apiToken>'
    authenticationToken: '<authenticationToken>'