ci.jenkins.io-runner

This project offers environment for running Jenkinsfile instances from ci.jenkins.io locally. It is powered by Jenkinsfile Runner and the experimental JFR Maven packaging flow introduced in 1.0-beta-16. If you want a classic runtime Jenkins master with agents, checkout my Jenkins Configuration-as-code demo.

The runner can execute buildPlugin() builds and some other commands from the Jenkins Pipeline Library. In particular, it is possible to run builds against multiple JDK and Jenkins core version combinations.

See the Limitations section below for some of known limitations.

Quickstart

1. Checkout this repo
2. Run make docker to build the base image
3. Run make run to run a simple demo
4. Run make demo-plugin to run a demo of the plugin build

Usage

The runner can be invoked against a workspace which contains a Jenkinsfile and, if needed, the project's sourcecode.

	docker run --rm -v maven-repo:/root/.m2 \
	    -v $(pwd)/demo/locale-plugin/:/workspace/ \
	    onenashev/ci.jenkins.io-runner

Developing Jenkins Pipeline Library

Jenkins Pipeline library may be passed from a volume so that it is possible to test a local snapshot.

	docker run --rm -v maven-repo:/root/.m2 \
	    -v ${MY_PIPELINE_LIBRARY_DIR}:/var/jenkins_home/pipeline-library \
	    -v $(pwd)/demo/locale-plugin/:/workspace/ \
	    onenashev/ci.jenkins.io-runner

Developer notes

Upgrade management

This repository uses Dependabot to track dependencies and to propose updates. Many plugin and library dependencies actually come from Bills of Materials supplied by the JFR packaging parent POM: Jenkins Core BOM and Jenkins Plugin BOM. It reduces the number of moving parts by consuming the cross-verified plugin versions.

Debugging Jenkinsfile Runner

To debug the execution, you can pass the JFR_LOCAL_WORKSPACE=true environment variable to the image. It will make the builder to execute Pipeline directly. It is also possible to debug Jenkinsfile Runner and Groovy init hooks by passing the remote debug options and exposing the debug port:

	docker run --rm -v maven-repo:/root/.m2 \
	    -v $(pwd)/demo/locale-plugin/:/workspace/ \
	    -p 5005:5005 -e JAVA_OPTS="-agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=y,address=5005,suspend=y" \
	    onenashev/ci.jenkins.io-runner

Profiling Jenkinsfile Runner

This repository supports profiling of Jenkinsfile Runner with Java Flight Recorder. Due to performance reasons, profiling happens on a local machine instead of the Docker containers.

To run profiling on a Unix machine:

• Build ci.jenkins.io-runner locally via mvn clean package
• Run make jfr-profile and wait till completion
• Retrieve the demo/locale-plugin/work/recording.jfr file with Java Flight Recorder dump
• Use performance analysis tools to analyze the Java Flight Recorder dump (e.g. IntelligIDEA, JDK Mission Control in AdoptOpenJDK). CPU and memory usage analysis can be done with the existing tools.

Limitations

This project has just started, so it has some downsides being compared to the runtime Pipeline Development instance here. All of the limitations below can be improved in the future.

• A custom fork of Jenkins Pipeline Library is needed to run it
  • Follow jenkins-infra/pipeline-library#78
• ci.jenkins.io-runner is a single-container package with only 1 executor
• Only JDK8 and JDK11 are provided in the image
• Windows steps are not supported
• Docker image is pretty big, because it bundles two versions of JDK