Upload multiple Gradle artifacts to Artifactory from Jenkins

Question

My environment uses Gradle for builds, Jenkins for CI, and Artifactory for a repository. I use the Artifactory plugin for Jenkins.

Jenkins successfully builds my main jar file and uploads it to Artifactory. The build script has a second target for creating a distribution zip file under build/distributions. Jenkins creates the zip file successfully, but I don't know how to tell it to upload that artifact to Artifactory, too.

Is this something I should be able to specify in the Jenkins Artifactory plugin config, or something I should define in the Gradle build script? Thanks for any pointers.

Answer 1

You should configure the archives configuration to include all the archives you intend to publish as described in Gradle's user manual. Not only Artifactory will pick up all the files to deploy automatically (without messing with Published Artifacts configuration), you won't even need to run the second task. All the archives will be creating by running the build task.

Answer 2

I assume you have configured artifactory server correctly in Manage Jenkins section; also your job is setup as a Freestyle Project.

Select your job and click Configure. Check Generic Artifactory Integration in Build Environment. Select your Artifactory Server and Target Repository from drop downs, check Override default deployer credentials if required. In Published Artifacts you enter the pattern for your zip file to be published, e.g. ${WORKSPACE}/distr/*.zip (where by WORKSPACE is jenkins current project's workspace and distr/*.zip your distribution zip file). Check if required Capture and publish build info, Include environment variables etc. Save your job. When you build it the next time, the zip file will be uploaded and will be available in the Builds section on artifactory.