How to create initial "seed" job

Requires job-dsl >= 1.74

Configuration is not just about setting up Jenkins master, it's also about creating an initial set of jobs. For this purpose, we delegate to the popular job-dsl-plugin and run a job-dsl script to create an initial set of jobs.

Typical usage is to rely on a multi-branch, or organization folder job type, so further jobs will be dynamically created. So a multi-branch seed job will prepare a master to be fully configured for CI/CD targeting a repository or organization.

Job-DSL plugin uses groovy syntax for its job configuration DSL, so you'll have to mix YAML and groovy within your configuration-as-code file:

jenkins:

systemMessage: "Simple seed job example"

jobs:

- script: >

multibranchPipelineJob('configuration-as-code') {

branchSources {

git {

id = 'configuration-as-code'

remote('https://github.com/jenkinsci/configuration-as-code-plugin.git')

}

}

}

Examples

Please refer to demos for examples to configure more complex jobs.