KBEC-00181 - Creating a mirror or custom plugin catalog

Description

Adding and maintaining plugins is easy if you have internet access. The Plugin Manager provides point-and-click plugin usage.

What if:

Your CloudBees CD (CloudBees Flow) Server does not have internet access.
You want to have a restrictive or expanded catalog for your CloudBees CD (CloudBees Flow) Server site.

Use the CloudBees CD (CloudBees Flow) Web Server to host the plugin catalog.

On the existing CloudBees CD (CloudBees Flow) Web Server do the following:

Create a directory "catalog" accessible by the CloudBees CD (CloudBees Flow) Web Server.
From a machine that has internet access, use a web browser to go to https://plugins.electric-cloud.com/catalog/browse.php:
1. Download each plugin
2. Save the plugin package to the Web Server catalog
Have the plugin manager point to a local plugin catalog:
1. Go to Administration > Plugins.
2. Select the "EC Plugin Manager" link.
3. Go to the Properties tab.
4. Modify the catalogUrl property, specifying a URL to a directory accessible on the internal network.

To use the existing Apache server that ships with CloudBees CD (CloudBees Flow) to store the local plugin catalog:

Create the directory /apache/htdocs/catalog
Using a web browser, save the online catalog file https://downloads.cloudbees.com/cloudbees-cd/catalog/catalog.xml to /apache/htdocs/catalog
Edit the local version of catalog.xml, replacing all instances of 'plugins.electric-cloud.com' with the hostname of the CloudBees CD (CloudBees Flow) server.
Change 'catalog’Url' to https://WebServerHost/catalog/catalog.xml, where WebServerHost is the name of your CloudBees CD (CloudBees Flow) server host.

To host the specialty plugin EC-CSH locally on the existing Web Server:

From a machine that has internet access, go to https://downloads.cloudbees.com/cloudbees-cd/catalog/browse.php
Save the EC-CSH package (a jar file) to /apache/htdocs/catalog