I'm new to Jenkins CI.I'm trying to get SVN update (myFolder) inside a job as build steps. I want to explicitly copy some files to web root as I can't have them inside my solution.
Build Steps I need to perform.
Build Solution
Publish
Copy myFolder to web root
Sync
Up to Publish it works fine.Problem when trying to copy/update myFolder to web root.
MyFolder is located out of the project solution folder as I cant have it inside solution Folder.
Note: This myFolder has serialized items/object that I need to Sync in the next step.It should be copied to web root in-order to sync.
And this folder is committed to SVN.
In my local CMD following batch file works fine but when I try in Jenkins Execute Windows Batch Command it stops at
-- Updating source from SVN
-- Running update...
#echo off
cls
echo -- Initiating system instance variables...
echo. -- Setting the variables...
:: Here you need to make some changes to suit your system.
set SOURCE=C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Test\Website\App_Data\myFolder\
set SVN=C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin
:: Unless you want to modify the script, this is enough.
echo. %SOURCE%
echo. %SVN%
echo. ++ Done setting variables.
echo.
echo -- Updating source from SVN
echo. -- Running update...
"%SVN%\TortoiseProc.exe" /command:update /path:"%SOURCE%" /closeonend:1
echo. ++ Done.
echo. -- Cleaning up...
set SOURCE=
set SVN=
echo. ++ Done.
I have Subversion Plugin installed.Any solution for this problem.
And Also I tried using below Powershell Script
#Get checkout folder
TortoiseProc.exe /command:"update" /path:"C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Test\Website\App_Data\myFolder\"
It works in my local Windows Powershell but not in Jenkins Windows Powershell
In an effort to help answer your question, I will explain the configuration of a job which should accommodate what you are trying to achieve: building a project under version control after an svn update has been performed and moving the generated files to a separate directory.
Setup the Source Code Management section
Within this section in your job's configuration page, choose the appropriate version control system (ie, Subversion) and point the job to your project's URL, noted below. Also be mindful to select the appropriate check-out strategy. This is what Jenkins will use when your job runs (ie, svn update) as Jenkins will store a copy of your repository on the build-server in the job's workspace.
Without proceeding any further, this job will only pull down any changes from your repository through the appropriate check-out strategy configured above when this job runs.
However, you would like Jenkins job to actually do something meaningful when the job runs, such as build/publish your project. This is achieved through build steps, so let's configure build steps.
Configure the appropriate build step(s)
Build/Publish Website Locally
Assuming you have scripts already written to build/publish the website under version control (let's call it !Publish Website.bat as an example) which builds the project and publishes it locally, you can configure the step underneath the Build section as follows,
Note: %WORKSPACE% is a built-in environment variable which resolves to the current workspace of the job. There is a link under the build-step to list all the different environment variables exposed which can be used.
Without proceeding any further, the job will now pull down any changes and execute the batch file to publish/build a website locally within your workspace when this job runs.
Not quite done considering you wish to have these newly generated files to reside within your website's webroot folder so these changes are reflected on your website. For simplicity's sake we can go ahead and add another build-step to perform the copy.
Copy Contents to Webroot
Assuming you have scripts already written to copy the contents of the website under version control (let's call it !Copy Website.bat) which takes the published files and copies them to the appropriate directory on your webserver, you can configure the step underneath the Build section as follows,
Now when the job runs, it will perform an svn update against the repository on it's local workspace and execute the preceeding build-steps (ie, build/publish the solution and copy the contents to your webroot.)
Related
We are using VSTS for CI and CD in my team, we got over 40 repositories which are separated projects. but all of them have to run the same PowerShell script in one of their Build steps.
the PowerShell file is bigger too big to be kept as the inline script, so we need to save it inside a file. obviously, I got a copy of the PowerShell file in each repository.
Problem:
Now whenever I need to update the script, then I end up to update it in every repository, which is over 40 at the moment.
I think there should be a better approach. Is there any way that I can put my script in one single repo (a repo dedicated to holding the script) then I use it within each build, therefore we I need to update it I only need to update it once.
There are a few options.
My general recommendation is to publish the script as a package (NuGet or otherwise) and restore it during your application builds. This allows consumers to stay "pinned" to a known-good, known-working version, and update on a schedule that works for them.
Another option is to add a submodule to each repository that requires the script dependency, then initialize the submodule during the build process.
A third option is to turn the shared script into a VSTS build task or extension. This is extensively documented and easily located so I won't belabor the point by including instructions for doing that here.
You can add a git repository to store your powershell file.
Then add a build step to get you file from that repository during build and use it.
I've just set up a project's deployment to our stage server. I have a powershell script on the remote server that is copying files from the bamboo artifacts to a specific folder on that same server. The folder they are being copied to uses TortoiseSVN as it's source control. Once the files are copied over all of my .js,.css,.html files are showing up as being modified in TortoiseSVN when only a couple have truly been modified. Using diff on some of the files the only difference between the new files and the previous is that newlines are being added to the end of every file.
My main question is if Bamboo modifies some project's files during the artifact building process or if there is another explanation for why these files are showing up as being modified.
Edit: As a side note, I deployed a different project to the same server using the same script and no newlines were present in any of the files. This project was smaller in size than the first project mentioned.
I am using jenkins.
In Each build I execute from Jenkins I am storing a build number in a Test file called Build.txt
Which is in opt/jenkins/ path.
I want to access this file through an URL from a browser.
Is it possible and How can I achieve it?
you can artifact the build files using
Post build -> Archieve artifacts
you can see those archieved files in URL using below plugin
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Archived+Artifact+Url+Viewer+PlugIn
The solution is to use Jenkins userContent directory. Jenkins has a mechanism known as "User Content", where administrators can place files inside $JENKINS_HOME/userContent, and these files are served from http://yourhost/jenkins/userContent.
Make sure your jenkins have Copy To Slave Plugin installed.
In your job config page, Add Post-build Action-->Copy files back to the job's workspace on the master node.
In the Files to copy field, fill in the files that you want to copy from the slave node back to the jenkins master's corresponding workspace of current job.
Goto your $JENKINS_HOME/userContent folder, create a link to $JENKINS_HOME/jobs/yourjob/workspace/screenshot by issuing command for example:
ln -s screenshot /home/ci/jenkins/jobs/tc_ui_test/workspace/screenshot/
After that, you can access your contents from url: http://yourhost/jenkins/userContent/screenshot
When doing a get-latest from TFS, all timestamps are set to the time at which the get operation was executed. When doing running msdeploy to perform a sync, the timestamps in the source are compared with the timestamps on the target server. Of course, this means that with TFS + msdeploy, every file will be pushed to the target servers after every build, unless
You use incremental builds
You have only a single build agent in the build controller's pool.
If the build definition is set to do Clean builds, or if you want to utilize multiple build agents, then this no longer works.
This topic comes up all the time, and once every couple of years I cast out new lines in case something has changed. This could be fixed in a couple of different ways:
TFS sets timestamps on workspace files to the last checkin time.
TFS sets timestamps on workspace files to the last modified time from the files themselves when they were last checked in.
msdeploy uses some content-based comparison method (e.g. MD5) to compare files, rather than timestamp comparisons.
Something else?
I never know where to go to search for this stuff since both of these teams are pretty opaque--the webdeploy team in particular. Is this a problem that has been solved yet?
The TFS and visual Studio teams are entirely transparent and you can submit feature requests through http://visualstudio.uservoice.com and bugs through http://connect.microsoft.com.
However all files within a server workspace are set to the date the file was last modified on the server. Local workspaces physically compare the file contents to determin changes. You can change from local workspace to server workspace in the workspace properties.
In the end, we got around this by writing a powershell script to wrap the .cmd file produced by the Web Publishing Pipeline, and passing the -useChecksum flag in the command that invokes the .cmd script. Since the boilerplate .cmd created by WPP allows for passing additional arguments to msdeploy, we were able to accomplish this with a line like the following.
& "MyProject.cmd" /u:agent /p:P#ssw0rd /m:$ComputerName /y -useChecksum
In this way, even though TFS is creating workspaces with timestamps set to the get-latest time, msdeploy is now instructed to use checksums instead.
I'm having a look at the Cloudbees Jenkins Folder Plugin. It looks like it will serve my purposes in allowing me to easily copy groups of jobs but...
When I copy a folder containing some jobs I have to click through Configure / Save for each job in the new folder before the Build option is available. Is this expected behavior?
thanks
Glenn
Yes, when a job is copied it is marked temporarily unbuildable until you save its configuration. This is essential in case the origin job was configured with a build trigger (like building on a schedule): you would not want the copied job to start running until you had a chance to check its configuration and perhaps make changes.