Jenkins Job Wrecker

time to get wrecked

Translate Jenkins XML jobs to YAML. The YAML can then be fed into Jenkins Job Builder.

Have a lot of Jenkins jobs that were crafted by hand over the years? This tool allows you to convert your Jenkins jobs to JJB quickly and accurately.

Installing

You can install a released version from PyPI:

pip install jenkins-job-wrecker

Or, if you want to hack on it, install it directly from GitHub:

virtualenv venv
. venv/bin/activate
git clone https://github.com/ktdreyer/jenkins-job-wrecker.git
python setup.py develop

You will now have a jjwrecker utility in your $PATH.

Usage

Let's say you have an XML definition file for "my-job". You'll typically find these .xml files on your Jenkins master, maybe in /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/. Here's how you convert that job file to YAML:

jjwrecker -f path/to/my-job/config.xml -n 'my-job'

This will write my-job.yml in a directory named "output" in your current working directory. You can then commit my-job.yml into your source control and use JJB to manage the Jenkins job onward.

In addition to operating on static XML files, jjwrecker also supports querying a live Jenkins server dynamically for a given job:

jjwrecker -s http://jenkins.example.com/ -n 'my-job'

It will write output/my-job.yml as above.

To make jjwrecker translate every job on the server, don't specify any job name:

jjwrecker -s http://jenkins.example.com/

jjwrecker will iterate through all the jobs and create .yml files in output/.

If your Jenkins instance requires a username and password to connect to the remote Jenkins server, you can set these as environment variables, exported before hand or right before running the CLI tool:

JJW_USERNAME=alfredo JJW_PASSWORD=go-tamaulipas jjwrecker -s
http://jenkins.ceph.com

If you receive the error Don't know how to handle a non-empty <actions> element., you have actions in your xml for that job (probably from plugins). If you know that you don't need this information in your JJB yml job config, try the -a flag.

If your Jenkins instance is using HTTPS and protected by a custom CA, add the CA's public cert to your system certificate store:

• Fedora: /etc/pki/tls/certs directory,
• Ubuntu: /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/

After you've placed the PEM-formatted file there, run c_reshash in that directory to create the CA certificate hash symlink. jjwrecker uses python-jenkins, which in turn uses six's urllib, and that library will validate HTTPS connections based on this openssl-hashed directory of certificates.

License

MIT (see LICENSE)

• Copyright (c) 2015-2020 Red Hat, Inc.
• Copyright (c) 2020 Liberty Global B.V.