jenkins-cli

Command line interface for Jenkins

Features

• Shows state of latest build
• Shows progress of ongoing build

Installation

npm install -g hjerling/jenkins-cli

You then set the Jenkins host URL with this:

jenkins config -H https://builds.apache.org/

For certificate configurations see the configuration section.

Usage

In the following examples, the job ibl is used as an example.

To view all commands and full usage information:

jenkins -h

To view options for a particular command:

jenkins build-history -h

Build Information

Get information about most recent build for a job:

jenkins build-history ibl -s 1

Get information about a specific build for a job:

jenkins build-history ibl -n 5

Get build history for 10 latest builds for a job:

jenkins build-history ibl

Get build history for all saved builds for a job:

jenkins build-history ibl -a

Get output from the most recent build for a job:

jenkins build-output ibl

Get output from a specific build for a job:

jenkins build-output ibl -n 5

Monitor progress of a ongoing build for a job:

jenkins build-progress ibl

Job Information

Search for a job:

jenkins search ibl

Search among jobs that are currently building:

jenkins search ibl -b

List all jobs:

jenkins search

List all jobs currently building:

jenkins search -b

Build Queue

Show the build queue:

jenkins build-queue

Job Interactions

Trigger a build for a job:

jenkins build ibl

Request for the latest build of a job to stopped:

jenkins stop-build ibl

Request for a specific build of a job to stopped:

jenkins stop-build ibl 5

Configuration

Configuration is stored in the file ~/.jenkins. The object in the file is passed on to the request.defaults function so it is possible to to utilise that if need be.

Set the Jenkins host URL:

jenkins config --host http://jenkins.url

Set the Jenkins host communication certificate:

jenkins config --cert /path/to/certtificate

Set the certificate password:

jenkins config --certPassword c3r71f1c473-p455w0rd

Disable strict SSL checking (useful for self signed certificates):

jenkins config --strictSSL false

Jenkins Server

Show information about the Jenkins Build Server:

jenkins info

Development

• All interactions with the Jenkins API use the node-jenkins library.
• The node-jenkins library should closely match the Jenkins API.
• If your command needs to make multiple Jenkins requests, make multiple calls into the node-jenkins library. Don't add methods to the API library for aggregating calls.
• To use a local version of the node-jenkins library during development, clone the library and link it from within the jenkins-cli project:

git clone git@github.com:hjerling/jenkins-cli.git
git clone git@github.com:hjerling/node-jenkins.git
cd jenkins-cli
npm link ../node-jenkins

• To use your local version of jenkins-cli in development you can npm link it globally so that the jenkins command will point to your version:

cd jenkins-cli
npm link .

If you're having any problems with npm link, make sure you've upgraded to a shiny new npm first:

npm install -g npm

Contributing

1. Fork it!
2. Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
3. Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
4. Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
5. Create new Pull Request.

Thanks

Thanks to Robin Murphy for basic structure of app.