+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 >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/6a363e9f-ed64-4be8-a4a9-7dc68591c6d6%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/6a363e9f-ed64-4be8-a4a9-7dc68591c6d6%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Baptiste <Batmat> MATHUS - http://batmat.net Sauvez un arbre, Mangez un castor ! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CANWgJS458MObFmtBpwETFiOOzhhpTXMX7Xdsj00dOX1QTOvPEQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
