CloudBees action: Run a Jenkins® job

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Use this action to trigger a Jenkins job. Jenkins is an open source automation server for CI/CD.

All CloudBees action repositories are listed at CloudBees, Inc. on GitHub.

Inputs

Table 1. Input details
Input name Data type Required? Description

url

String

Yes

The Jenkins server URL.

username

String

Yes

The Jenkins username.

token

String

Yes

The Jenkins token.

job-name

String

Yes

The Jenkins job name.

test-type

String

No

Specifies the test type for generating a job test report. Supported test types are JUnit (junit) and TestNG (testng).

test-result-location

String

No

Specifies the test report file location. Accepts pattern matching, such as my-dir/*/my-file.

parameters

JSON

No

Any additional parameters, formatted as JSON data in key/value pairs.

Usage example

In your YAML file, add:

jobs: run-jenkins-job: steps: - name: Run Jenkins job uses: cloudbees-io/jenkins-run-job@v2 with: username: ${{ secrets.JENKINS_USERNAME }} token: ${{ secrets.JENKINS_TOKEN }} url: ${{ vars.JENKINS_URL }} job-name: jenkins_job_name test-type: Junit test-result-location: junit-service* parameters: '{"ENV_NAME":"TEST"}'