Allow promotion of job in Jenkins pipeline

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I have a Jenkins pipeline which is responsible for about 5 stages (build and several different tests). I'm migrating from Jenkins 1.XX (with no pipelines) to Jenkins 2 and I'd like to replicate my process as closely as possible. The pipeline job I have set up on J2 handles everything exactly the same except it's using a JenkinsFile. The only issue is that the pipeline plugin does not appear to support Promotion of particular builds like you can do with Freestyle Jobs. Has anyone found a way around this?

Is your main use-case deploying the last build? Or do you need a system for deploying previous builds? Although I haven't found a way to Promote, the value returned from building jobs can be used to at least copyArtifacts, using the build number as the selector argument. Then I run my own "promotion" (bash scripts specific to each job), that deploy the artifact to its final destination. — ecoe

Jon S Jon S · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-15T21:08:09

Seems like Promoted Builds Plugin doesn't support pipelines yet. If you check the issue there is also some good pros and cons about supporting it for pipelines.

Allow promotion of job in Jenkins pipeline

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