How to Automate Jenkins job configurations as code

Automatically generating Jenkins jobs: Step-by-step guide

1. pip install virtualenv
2. virtualenv .venv
3. source .venv/bin/activate
4. pip install jenkins-job-builder
5. mkdir jenkins-job-auto-create ; cd jenkins-job-auto-create
6. vim jenkins_jobs.ini

[job_builder]
ignore_cache=True
keep_descriptions=False
include_path=.
recursive=False
allow_duplicates=False
 
[jenkins]
user=YOUR_USER_NAME
password=YOUR_PASSWORD_OR_API_KEY
url=https://path.to.jenkins

7. vim project_pipeline_test01.yaml

- job:
    name: Jenkins-auto-config
    project-type: pipeline
    dsl: |
      @Library('CIPipelineUtilities') _
      testSuite {
          envName="BTS_EU"
          suiteName="MonitorTest"
      }

8. jenkins-jobs --conf jenkins_jobs.ini update project_pipeline_test01.yaml

INFO:jenkins_jobs.cli.subcommand.update:Updating jobs in ['project_pipeline_test01.yaml'] ([])
INFO:jenkins_jobs.builder:Number of jobs generated:  1
INFO:jenkins_jobs.builder:Creating jenkins job Jenkins-auto-config
INFO:jenkins_jobs.cli.subcommand.update:Number of jobs updated: 1
INFO:jenkins_jobs.builder:Number of views generated:  0
INFO:jenkins_jobs.cli.subcommand.update:Number of views updated: 0

9. Jenkins job created automatic

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10. Configurations as expected

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11. Related articles
https://www.slalom.com/thinking/automatically-generating-jenkins-jobs