Jenkins – passing variables between jobs?
You can use Parameterized Trigger Plugin which will let you pass parameters from one task to another. You need also add this parameter you passed from upstream in downstream.
continuous-integration
How to run jenkins as a different user
The “Issue 2” answer given by @Sagar works for the majority of git servers such as gitorious. However, there will be a name clash in a system like gitolite where the public ssh keys are checked in as files named with the username, ie keydir/jenkins.pub. What if there are multiple jenkins servers that need to … Read more
CruiseControl [.Net] vs TeamCity for continuous integration?
I have worked on and with Continuous Integration tools since the one that spawned Cruise Control (java version). I’ve tried almost all of them at some point. I’ve never been happier than I am with TeamCity. It is very simple to set up and still provides a great deal of power. The build statistics page … Read more
Archive the artifacts in Jenkins
Your understanding is correct, an artifact in the Jenkins sense is the result of a build – the intended output of the build process. A common convention is to put the result of a build into a build, target or bin directory. The Jenkins archiver can use globs (target/*.jar) to easily pick up the right … Read more
How to choose between Hudson and Jenkins? [closed]
Use Jenkins. Jenkins is the recent fork by the core developers of Hudson. To understand why, you need to know the history of the project. It was originally open source and supported by Sun. Like much of what Sun did, it was fairly open, but there was a bit of benign neglect. The source, trackers, … Read more