jen2jen: a command line tool to backup and clone Jenkins setup

Installation

To install jen2jen from PyPi please run the following commands

dude$ pip install jen2jen

or if you want to build it from sources just clone the repo locally

dude$ git clone git@gitlab.com:helgie/jen2jen.git && cd jen2jen && virtualenv -p python3 venv && . venv/bin/actuvate && python setup.py install

Usage

  jen2jen --version
  jen2jen submit [--host <jenkins url>] [--login <username>] [--password <password>] [--local <directory>]
  jen2jen fetch [--host <jenkins url>] [--login <username>] [--password <password>] [--local <directory>]
  jen2jen get-plugins [--host <jenkins url>] [--login <username>] [--password <password>] [--local <directory>]
  jen2jen post-plugins [--host <jenkins url>] [--login <username>] [--password <password>] [--local <directory>]

Commands:
   fetch              Get the job structure from a remote Jenkins instance and store it locally.
   get-plugins        Get current set of plugins.
   post-plugins       Post current set of plugins.
   submit             Post the jobs from a local directory to some remote Jenkins instance.

Options:
  -h --help                 Show this screen.
  --host=<hostname>         HTTP-address of a remote Jenkins instance. NB! :8080 may be needed.
  --login=<username>        A remote Jenkins administrator (or equal) account username.
  --password=<password>     A remote Jenkins administrator (or equal) account password.
  --local=<directory>     A remote Jenkins administrator (or equal) account password.

Examples

To fetch jobs setup from the Jenkins instance on the localhost to your home directory run the following command

dude$ jen2jen fetch --login admin --password mypassword --host http://localhost:8080 --local ~/