[Ci-users] Splitting a job and making dependencies

Fri Jun 2 12:37:21 UTC 2017
Václav Pavlín <vasek at redhat.com>

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 7:05 PM, Ari LiVigni <alivigni at redhat.com> wrote:

> As you pointed out Jenkins pipeline is a great fit for this scenario for a
> number of reasons.
>  - It keeps all the stages in one pipeline with little duplication
>  - Great integration with Openshift
>
> That said I understand having to switch from JJB to Pipeline.
> There is also a way you can start to combine both while still using JJB:
> https://docs.openstack.org/infra/jenkins-job-builder/
> project_pipeline.html?highlight=pipeline#module-project_pipeline
>

Very helpful - I've decided to go with this, so I came up with this schema:

http://pastebin.centos.org/98936/

Basically I have 3 jobs instead of 1

1. Main - new, it is a pipeline and kicks off the other jobs
2. Build - existing, it does what the current job does
3. Deploy - new, parameterised job so that it does not have to be created N
times (where N is number of repos we build)

The only thing I am not sure about is the deploy job - it might be a bit
confusing with the parameters as things may fail "randomly", but I still
like it a bit more than adding 30-40 new jobs which do exactly the same
thing with just 2 changing variables..

Does it make sense like this? Would you say it follows "best practices"?:)



>
> Multijob is a good way to keep jobs in a pipeline that allows certain jobs
> to run in parallel and then gate on a final step.
> I do believe this can fit what you are looking for.  If you need to run
> multiple similar scenarios of the same steps with subtle config differences
> than matrix-jobs are great as well.
>
> I did a blog post on this of how we used this.  We use it for
> Openshift-ansible committed and PRs currently.
>
> https://metalgeekblog.wordpress.com/2016/08/17/jenkins-creating-multijob-
> matrix-jobs-in-for-simplifying-committed-and-pr-jobs/
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Václav Pavlín <vasek at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am very new to Jenkins, so please bear with me:)
>>
>> We have this JJB config: https://github.com/alm
>> ighty/almighty-jobs/blob/master/devtools-ci-index.yaml
>>
>> Where there is this job-template: https://github.c
>> om/almighty/almighty-jobs/blob/master/devtools-ci-index.yaml#L195
>>
>> The script basically copies content of git cloned directory and runs
>> build script. If that run is successful it deploys the resulting docker
>> image to OpenShift.
>>
>> We want to deploy images by tag - which corresponds to git commit hash,
>> so it gets templated in by oc process.
>>
>> The problem is that there are templates which have more parameters and we
>> have taken care of this with a small script in this repostory:
>> https://github.com/openshiftio/saas/
>>
>> So my goal is to use that saas tool to do the deploy instead of plain oc
>> process > oc apply.
>>
>> As we have multiple templates which have different scripts, I'd like to
>> avoid code duplication - I don't want to copy&paste the oc process/oc apply
>> or the script calls around in the file.
>>
>> So my thinking to solve this was to create some kind of hierarchy - I
>> found something about dependencies and something called multijob where a
>> job would trigger a build phase (build a docker image) and a deploy phase
>> (oc apply). The key part is that if any of the phases fail, whole job
>> fails. Also, deploy phase must not be triggered when build phase fails.
>>
>> What would be the correct approach with JJB to solve this? Is this wrong
>> thinking? Am I missing something from the Jenkins point of view?
>>
>> I know this would be ideally solved by pipelines, but I don't think that
>> is an option at the moment.
>>
>> Looking forward to comments and suggestions,
>> Vašek
>>
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