Basically we wan't to spend more time to develop great stuff instead of manage the whole day Jenkins jobs. I wrote this Jenkins plugin which enables us to manage all our Jenkins jobs on at a specific point with the power of Jenkins plugins.
- A list of all your software projects (=assets) you want to manage, with an ID, name, SCM-url, and optionally an category. Example list.
- Profiles, like in our example repository. Each profile contains one or more XML-files which representing the Jenkins Job Configuration.
To provide more projectspecific informations we're trying to read / parse projects like maven or composer.
Iterate throw the list of projects, find the right profile, parse the profile with the projects informations and send it to jenkins.
Since there are new options to automate the process of creating a job or update it, like the job-dsl-plugin, this plugin is not needed anymore.