jenkins-job-trigger-action

Triggers Jenkins Jobs from GitHub actions

This action allows to trigger a job on Jenkins and get the build result.

name: Your GHA
on:
  pull_request:
    types: [opened, synchronize]

jobs:
  your_job_name:
    name: Trigger Jenkins Job
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Trigger your-awesome-job-name job
        uses: toptal/jenkins-job-trigger-action@master
        with:
          jenkins_url: "https://your.jenkins.url/"
          jenkins_user: ${{ secrets.JENKINS_USER }}
          jenkins_token: ${{ secrets.JENKINS_TOKEN }}
          proxy: ${{ secrets.JENKINS_PROXY }}
          job_name: "the-name-of-your-jenkins-job"
          job_params: |
            {
              "param_1": "value_1",
              "param_2": "value_2"
            }
          job_timeout: "3600" # Default 30 sec. (optional)

Inputs

• jenkins_url: required Jenkins instance URL
• jenkins_user: required User name used for authentication
• jenkins_token: required Jenkins API token that belongs to jenkins_user
• job_name: required for jobs stored in a folder use {folder-name}/job/{job-name}
• job_params: Valid JSON with key-value params passed to the job
• job_timeout: Number of seconds to wait for the action to finish (Default 30)
• proxy: Proxy URL, includes username and password
• async: Set to true if you want to just trigger the job and dont wait for it to complete (Default false)

Outputs

• jenkins_job_url: jenkins build URL if the scheduled job starts executing within given job_timeout