How to create a Test Environment

The user wants to create a test environment to replicate the production environment.

Creating a test environment for CloudBees products will require a license so, please, send the instance ID of the test instance to Support Service and they will send you a test instance license.

We recommend having a separate test environment with a similar setup of the production environment, with representative jobs.

It is highly recommended having jobs on the test controller that are representative of jobs on the production controller so you will be able to exercise the key plugins to your workflow, and the interactions with any external systems (SCM, artifact repositories, bug trackers, cloud automation).

It’s generally best to build some jobs which are a good subset of representative jobs on this test cluster. These dedicated jobs should represent the production jobs, but without touching your real data. We recommend to talk with your development groups to find jobs that they feel cover the main functionality:

After creating the test environment, update the configuration for some representative jobs so they do not collide with your production jobs, and run them to ensure they work correctly. Credentials will need to be re-created on your test instance.

To clone a production controller to a test controller, follow the steps from Migration Guide: CloudBees Jenkins Platform and CloudBees Jenkins Team, specifically, the section titled:

To clone a production controller to a test controller, take a backup of your ‘production’ controller Using the CloudBees Backup plugin , then create a brand new controller running the same version (same docker image) and startup arguments over on your ‘test’ or ‘dev’ operations center, then create a restore job and restore the JENKINS_HOME data by using Restoring from backup (using a restore job).