Talk on 40 Great Jenkins Plugins in 40 Minutes at DevConf 2015.

1. 40 GREAT JENKINS PLUGINS IN 40
MINUTES
( )Miro Cupak DNAstack
@mirocupak
2015-02-07

2. WHO AM I?
currently so ware engineer at DNAstack
contributor/administrator (~1 year) at Red Hat
Jenkins user (~5 years)
previously quality engineer at Red Hat

3. JENKINS
638 organization members on GitHub
100K active installations with 300K nodes
3.2M installations of unique plugins1050
Which plugins should you use?

4. #1
DASHBOARD VIEW
view implementation containing portlets (well, sort of...)
easy to extend

7. #2
CLOUDBEES FOLDERS
organizes jobs into hierarchical folders (think file system)
better grouping capabilities than and othersNested View

9. #3
BUILD TIMEOUT
automatically aborts a build if it's taking too long
usually works

11. #4
WORKSPACE CLEANUP
removes data from the workspace before/a er a build

13. #5
MULTIPLE SCMS
allows jobs to check out sources from multiple SCM
providers

15. #6
NODE LABEL PARAMETER
allows you to dynamically select the node where a job
should run

18. #7
URL TRIGGER
polls given URLs for changes and triggers a build a er a
change is detected
only HTTP(S), other protocols included in XTrigger

20. #8
HTML PUBLISHER
publishes HTML reports to job/build pages

24. #9
EMBEDDABLE BUILD STATUS
exposes current build status as an image

27. #10
MATRIX PROJECT
supports multi-configuration (matrix) project type
used to be a part of Jenkins core, now a bundled plugin
essentially a parametrized job running all combinations of
parameters

30. #11
MATRIX RELOADED
rebuilds parts of matrix builds

32. #12
MATRIX COMBINATIONS
allows the user to dynamically choose combinations to
run in a matrix job
introduces a Matrix Combinations parameter type

35. #13
GROOVY
allows for execution of groovy code
2 types of build steps:
groovy scripts
run in the slave's JVM
system groovy scripts
run inside master's JVM

37. #14
PLOT
outputs simple charts (plots) from builds

40. #15
JOB RESTRICTIONS
restricts how builds can be triggered and where they can
run

42. #16
OWNERSHIP
introduces concept of owners of jobs and slaves
includes:
ownership-based security (via and
plugins)
summaries
reasonable default assignments
Role Strategy Job
Restrictions

44. #17
REBUILD
rebuilds a parameterized build with the same parameters

47. #18
PARAMETERIZED TRIGGER
extension of out-of-the-box upstream-downstream job
relationship
provides job chaining with parameter passing

49. #19
WORKFLOW
allows you to write complex workflows in Groovy with an
embedded DSL
forget and plugins
introduces a new workflow job type
collection of plugins
supports:
core job-related stuff (triggers, parameters, SCM...)
durable pipelines
allocation of slaves and workspaces
human input integrated into flows
sandboxing via plugin
Build Flow Join
Script Security

51. #20
DESCRIPTION SETTER
sets the description for a build
uses a regular expression to find a line in the console log

53. #21
IMPLIED LABELS
recognizes implication rules to infer node labels

55. #22
ENVIRONMENT INJECTOR
manages environment variables for jobs and nodes
use cases:
set up clean environment for nodes
inject variables based on user parameter values
inject environment variables from the evaluation of a
Groovy script

57. #23
NAGINATOR
automatically reschedules a build a er a build failure

59. #24
EMAIL EXTENSION
controls all aspects of email notifications

60. Mailer

63. #25
TIMESTAMPER
adds timestamps to console output

65. #26
COPY TO SLAVE
transfers data between the master's file system and jobs'
workspaces

67. #27
COPY ARTIFACT
copies an artifact from another build/job into the current
build's workspace

69. #28
PRIORITY SORTER
queues jobs according to their priorities
the lower the priority, the sooner the job runs

72. #29
THROTTLE CONCURRENT BUILDS
limits the number of concurrent builds of a project
running per node or globally
replaces pluginLocks and Latches

74. #30
BUILD PUBLISHER
sends builds to another Jenkins master over HTTP

76. #31
JOB CONFIGURATION HISTORY
versioning of job and system configuration

79. #32
AUDIT TRAIL
records who performed a particular operation and when

81. #33
TMP CLEANER
periodically cleans up JVM temporary files
no UI
-Dhudson.plugins.tmpcleaner.TmpCleanWork.minutes
-Dhudson.plugins.tmpcleaner.TmpCleanWork.days=1

82. #34
CREDENTIALS
allows you to store and manage credentials in Jenkins
exposes API to other plugins
organizes credentials into domains

85. #35
DISK USAGE
periodically calculates disk space occupied by jobs
beware of performance impact!

88. #36
DOCKER
dynamically provisions Docker slaves
needs images with JDK and SSH server
allows to commit a container

90. #37
XVNC
runs Xvnc session during a build
each build gets its own display allocated from a free list

92. #38
READ-ONLY CONFIGURATIONS
shows global and job configurations in read-only mode

94. #39
CUSTOM TOOLS
installs tools on slaves as needed

97. #40
FAVORITE
allows the users to mark jobs as favorite

100. THANK YOU.
@mirocupak #devconfcz http://devconf.cz/f/81
http://mcupak.github.io/jenkins-plugins-talk