Aborting Jenkins pipeline stage without aborting subsequent stages

Question

Question

I have a Jenkins pipeline with multiple stages. These stages are executed on separate worker nodes. Currently when I abort a pipeline the subsequent stages are all aborted and the build status is set to aborted.

I would like to develop the pipeline such that I can abort a stage without aborting all subsequent stages.

Build Log

Below is a sample build log of a pipeline with two stages: Stage A and Stage B. As you can see when I aborted Stage A Jenkins skips Stage B. I would like Jenkins to execute Stage B when Stage A is aborted

[Pipeline] {
[Pipeline] stage
[Pipeline] { (A)
[Pipeline] echo
Started stage A
[Pipeline] sleep
Sleeping for 20 sec
Aborted by anonymous
[Pipeline] }
[Pipeline] // stage
[Pipeline] stage
[Pipeline] { (B)
Stage "B" skipped due to earlier failure(s)
[Pipeline] }
[Pipeline] // stage
[Pipeline] }
[Pipeline] // node
[Pipeline] End of Pipeline
Finished: ABORTED

Answer 1

Clarification

Your question isn't very clear. My understanding is that you wish to structure you pipeline such that if Stage A is aborted it will still run Stage B. To do this you need to use the catchError step. Sample code is included below

The catchError step behaves differently than a try/catch block so please read the linked documentation

Code Sample

pipeline {
    agent any

    stages {
        stage("A") {

            steps {
                catchError(buildResult: 'SUCCESS', stageResult: 'ABORTED') { 
                    echo "Started stage A"
                    sleep(time: 20, unit: "SECONDS")
                }
            }
        }

        stage("B") {
            steps {
                echo "Started stage B"
                sleep(time: 20, unit: "SECONDS")
            }
        }
    }
}

Build Log

The following build log illustrates me aborting the pipeline in Stage A, but Jenkins continues onward past catchError and executes Stage B.

Running on Jenkins in /var/jenkins_home/workspace/Testing/sleep-abort-test
[Pipeline] {
[Pipeline] stage
[Pipeline] { (A)
[Pipeline] catchError
[Pipeline] {
[Pipeline] echo
Started stage A
[Pipeline] sleep
Sleeping for 20 sec
Aborted by Chris Maggiulli
[Pipeline] }
[Pipeline] // catchError
[Pipeline] }
[Pipeline] // stage
[Pipeline] stage
[Pipeline] { (B)
[Pipeline] echo
Started stage B
[Pipeline] sleep
Sleeping for 20 sec
Click here to forcibly terminate running steps
[Pipeline] }
[Pipeline] // stage
[Pipeline] }
[Pipeline] // node
[Pipeline] End of Pipeline
Finished: ABORTED