In a previous post, the Jenkins Stapler plugin was used to implement a plugin to be used with freestyle and pipeline jobs. In this example, all plugin parameters had to be defined in the pipeline script. However, sometimes it would be more convenient to make some plugin parameters optional.
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Jenkins Plugin for Build Steps and Pipelines
If you are writing a Jenkins plugin and you want it to run as a build step and to work smoothly with pipelines, the following article shows you how to do it. I will show how I migrated a build step plugin to also work as pipeline plugin.
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How to Create a Jenkins Plugin
Jenkins is one of the well-known open source automation servers out there. It allows you to build, deploy and automat your project. It is extensible, meaning you can write your own plugin for your special use case. However, the lack of documentation and working examples makes it suprisingly difficult to
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