Plugin tasks let you orchestrate third-party tools at the appropriate time in your pipeline. The following third-party tools can be used with CloudBees CD/RO:
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Application Servers such as IIS, JBoss, and Tomcat
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Builds such as EMake, Maven, or Visual Studio
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Code Analysis such as Clover CMD, Coverity, or Klocwork
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Databases such as DBI, Oracle, or SQLServer
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Defect Tracking such as Bugzilla, JIRA, or Rally
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Notification such as Twitter
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Reporting such as Reports
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Resource Management such as Chef, EC2, or OpenStack
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Scripting/Shell operations such as Groovy, Python, or Ruby
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Source Code Analysis such as ECSCM-ClearCase, ECSCM-Git, or ECSCM-Perforce
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System such as Artifact or FileSysRepo
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Test such as HPQualityCenter, Jasmine, or Selenium
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Utility such as FileOps or SendEmail.
Plugin Tasks
This example shows how to add a task to a pipeline stage and define it as a Plugin task.
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Create a new pipeline similar to the one below (see Creating a Pipeline ). Click Add+ to initiate the Add Task dialog.
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Enter
PROD-Stage-Snapshotas the task name.The task list is updated.
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Click Select Task Type to define the task. In the Task Type popup:
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Click the EC-Selenium task type from the list of available plugin types.
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Click the runSelenium procedure.
The task type and procedure appear on the task.
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Click Define on the task tile. The task definition dialog box appears. Here you see configuration specific to the plugin. In this case, four input parameters are required.
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Click Open Dialog button to open the plugin parameters dialog box.
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Enter the parameters, and click OK.
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Click OK to exit the task definition dialog box.
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Click Done.