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Short: Can I set the name of a Jenkins job created automatically by the Multibranch Pipeline job, to something calculated in the job itself?

Long: We do a lot of microservices with mostly identical build processes, and we would like to have as little hassle building and testing them as we can.

To that end, I am considering the Jenkins Multibranch Pipeline jobs, where I could just add another project repository and have that new repository built with new jobs being created for new branches that contain Jenkinsfiles. That would also cause the new jobs appear on the build monitor. And here is where the problems start.

I would like to see the name of the project on the build monitor cells, rather than something like my_multibranch_pipeline_t » temp_branch_one. However, I couldn't find a way to set the JOB_NAME to anything.

Am I missing something?

Ibolit
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  • So far, looks like what I need is the Job DSL job generator. – Ibolit Nov 01 '18 at 08:25
  • An alternative is to fork the jenkins multi-branch plugin and override the job-naming logic, the hardest part being finding it, possibly... – Patrice M. Nov 06 '18 at 00:36

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I really don't know any way to set the job name from the Jenkinsfile. However we solve the same issue that you describe using seedjobs. These are basically freestyle jobs executing Jenkins' Job DSL, which is able to define as many jobs as you like.

We are using a map of service names, mapped to their Git-urls and iterate over that using Groovy's each.

Michael
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