+1 for the Job DSL plugin if you don't have hard security requirements on
your Jenkins instance. (i.e. all users are allowed to modify anything).

2015-10-02 20:37 GMT+02:00 Cuong Tran <[email protected]>:

> Martin,
>
> We use the Templates plugin to simplify the job creation interface and
> standardize common job types. Combined with the folder plugin, we can
> restrict what can be created within a folder, making it even simpler for
> end users. The xml transformation isn't bad since you can just create a job
> with substitution tokens (${FOO}) and load it in from the interface.
> Changes to a template are automatically propagated to its jobs as well.
> You can also easily convert an existing job to use templates job.
>
> I think it's better than the other options you listed.
>
> Having said that, we have thousands of jobs and multiple Jenkins masters
> so this plugin doesn't work that well for our scenario.  I think the
> general direction of keeping the job configuration in SCM (using
> combination of the workflow and Job DSL plugin) is more scalable and it's
> something we are investigating.
>
> On Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 12:53:36 PM UTC-7, Martin B. wrote:
>>
>> Hello users.
>>
>> I'm looking for independent opinions on the Jenkins Enterprise Templates
>> Plugin.
>>
>> It would be one of the main reasons for us to adopt Jenkins Enterprise,
>> but I was quite shocked to learn (see
>>
>> http://documentation.cloudbees.com/docs/cje-user-guide/temolate-sect-job-template-tutorial.html)
>>
>> that you actually have to do raw XML transformation to get a simple job
>> template running. Looks rather bare bones to me. ('course I *can* see
>> where this might be useful with very complicated job templates, but I
>> like to keep the simple stuff simple, and telling people to write jelly
>> transformations isn't my idea of simple)
>>
>> Anyway - are you using JE Templates Plugin? Great Stuff? Much better
>> than (https://github.com/JoelJ/ez-templates) or
>> (https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Template+Project+Plugin)
>> ... ?
>>
>> cheers,
>> Martin
>>
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