Jenkins Multijob - pass project name parameter from Build_job1 to Deploy_job2

Question

on a multi job I have two phases:

1. PhaseA running Build_job1, with a project name Build_job1, pulling stuff from git to dir: /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/Build_job1

2. PhaseB running Deploy_job2, that rsyncs /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/Build_job1/* to a bunch of servers.

For internal reasons I need to replicate the multijob, the build job and the deploy job to different environments (PROD, QA, Staging). I each case, the deploy job rsync will need to copy files from a different build directory (Build_QA, Build_Prod, Build_whatever etc.).

As Jenkins creates the dir per project name, I need the rsync command in the deploy job to get the project name as a parameter that is passed down from the build job.

help?

Answer 1

Are you wanting to pass down the current job's project name down to its children? If so, you can pass down this information via a Jenkins Set Environment Variables call "JOB_NAME" in conjunction with a predefined job parameter. For example, something like:

Param1=${JOB_NAME}

If the Multijob job name is "QA", you can pass that down to both the build and deploy phase jobs via a predefined parameter and then construct the final "Build_QA" path by doing something like "Build_${Param1}" or "Build_%Param1%".