Setting up Jenkins pipeline job in Rundeck 3.4.9 community version

#1

I want to setup a Jenkins pipeline job which should be triggered by Rundeck. I have already created a Jenkins Pipeline job in Jenkins which is working fine. Now , my requirement is that the same Jenkins job should be triggered by Rundeck. I am using Rundeck 3.4.9 community version.

So can someone please guide how can i setup a Jenkins job in Rundeck and what configurations i need to do on both Rundeck and Jenkins end ? Quick response is much appreciated.

Regards Shantanu

#2

Hi Shantanu,

For Rundeck related cases, please use this subforum. Anyway, take a look at this answer and this Google Groups thread.

Greetings.

Hope it helps!

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#4

@reiner.acuna Thanks for your reply…

I have gone through the link which you provided but its not much explained in detail… So Could you please help me with steps of setting up Jenkins job in Rundeck , as i am very new to Rundeck so i am having many doubts and confusions.
Quick response is appreciated.

#5

Hi Shantanu,

I made a quick test environment.

  1. From the Jenkins side, with a new user token and a new job.
  2. From Rundeck, I created a new job with a script step with the following content:
curl -vvv -X POST http://admin:11bd72f1f22653cf7158c7961f60476a1d@localhost:8080/job/MyJenkinsJob/build

The format is the same as the Google Group post:

http://user:JENKINS_USER_TOKEN@localhost:8080/job/TestJob/build

Basically is the same way of calling any endpoint using the cURL tool.

Here is the job definition example (you can import job definitions to your instance following this).

- defaultTab: nodes
  description: ''
  executionEnabled: true
  id: 1fa2923a-5b1d-4ea2-97d1-4cc2a3726f07
  loglevel: INFO
  name: ExampleJENKINS
  nodeFilterEditable: false
  plugins:
    ExecutionLifecycle: null
  scheduleEnabled: true
  sequence:
    commands:
    - exec: echo "starting..."
    - fileExtension: .sh
      interpreterArgsQuoted: false
      script: curl -vvv -X POST http://admin:11bd72f1f22653cf7158c7961f60476a1d@localhost:8080/job/MyJenkinsJob/build
      scriptInterpreter: /bin/bash
    keepgoing: false
    strategy: node-first
  uuid: 1fa2923a-5b1d-4ea2-97d1-4cc2a3726f07

Alternatively, you can use the HTTP step plugin to call your Jenkins job easily, here you can see how to install the plugin, and here I left a job definition example:

- defaultTab: nodes
  description: ''
  executionEnabled: true
  id: 1fa2923a-5b1d-4ea2-97d1-4cc2a3726f07
  loglevel: INFO
  name: ExampleJENKINS
  nodeFilterEditable: false
  plugins:
    ExecutionLifecycle: null
  scheduleEnabled: true
  sequence:
    commands:
    - exec: echo "starting..."
    - configuration:
        authentication: Basic
        checkResponseCode: 'false'
        method: POST
        password: keys/jenkins_admin_token
        printResponse: 'false'
        printResponseToFile: 'false'
        proxySettings: 'false'
        remoteUrl: http://localhost:8080/job/MyJenkinsJob/build
        sslVerify: 'true'
        timeout: '30000'
        username: admin
      nodeStep: true
      type: edu.ohio.ais.rundeck.HttpWorkflowNodeStepPlugin
    keepgoing: false
    strategy: node-first
  uuid: 1fa2923a-5b1d-4ea2-97d1-4cc2a3726f07

The example uses basic authentication to pass the username and token (pulled from Rundeck Key Storage).

In both cases, the Jenkins job is launched from Rundeck.

Hope it helps!

#6

Thank you so much for the help…i hope this will help me a lot to configure job in Rundeck.

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