Pipeline multiple jenkins jobs

Question

I am very new to Jenkins.

There are multiple jobs already configured in Jenkins, As of now we are running all the jobs manually one after the other. I want to make it a single job by pipeline plugin, So that manual effort is reduced.

I had gone through the links, It states we should have JenkinsFile in our repository it basically contains command's to execute the different tasks.

But if i am configuring it in JenkinsFile how can give the existing job names ?

Is it the only way to do a pipeline or is there any other way to achieve this ?

Ex : I have three jobs

1. build-dev-code
2. test-dev-code
3. deploy-stage

I would like to pipeline all the three jobs,

  deploy-stage-ci 

So that it contains all the 3 above mentioned jobs.

Answer 1

You don't always need a Jenkinsfile to use Pipeline. In your Pipeline job, choose "Pipeline Script" from the dropdown to get a script editor.

To build your three jobs sequentially, in a pipeline, use the following script (using names from your example). It simply wraps each job in a stage and builds it. This will also give you a pretty stage view while it runs your jobs:

stage('Build') {
  build 'build-dev-code'
}
stage('Test') {
  build 'test-dev-code'
}
stage('Deploy') {
  build 'deploy-stage'
}