Re: Aggregating jobs and config from many servers into one

2018-08-14 Thread Baptiste Mathus
I would /simply/ move everything under a different folder locally. Then copy everything to a central new instance using rsync or something like this, then everything looks fine. If it does, you'll then be able to use the folders plugin to move things where you want them. My 2 cents Le ven. 10

Re: Aggregating jobs and config from many servers into one

2018-08-10 Thread RAJENDRA PRASAD
Another simple way is to just copy every job config.xml file from source jenkins server to target jenkins server. You can use shell script for that. Just copy /jobs//config.xml from source jenkins folder to target jenkins server folder. Jenkins cli is not a bad option, if we can script property

Re: Aggregating jobs and config from many servers into one

2018-08-10 Thread Kevin White
Thanks Rajendra. I had avoided using the CLI because there are so many jobs to be moved, and it doesn't move plugins, credentials, etc. I was hoping for a more-automated way of doing it, but it might not exist. I have looked at butler, I'll take another look. On Friday, August 10, 2018 at

Re: Aggregating jobs and config from many servers into one

2018-08-10 Thread RAJENDRA PRASAD
Check whether the remote machines enabled REST Interface or jenkins cli, you can easily export and import jobs from any jenkins server to any other jenkins server, other useful utility also I found called 'butler, script, check online if you cannot find it I can send you link for the that to

Aggregating jobs and config from many servers into one

2018-08-10 Thread Kevin White
My team has several different Jenkins servers that we have decided to aggregate into just one. I'm somewhat familiar with the process of migrating one old Jenkins instance to a new one, where the new one is essentially a clone of the old. What I haven't seen is instructions for combining