A brief look at the new, officially supported Workflow Plugin for Jenkins.

1. Jenkins Workflow
An Introduction

2. ● Definition
● Current Landscape
● Jenkins Workflow Plugin
● Where does it fit in?
Agenda

3. “an orchestrated and repeatable pattern of business
activity enabled by the systematic organization of
resources into processes that transform materials,
provide services, or process information” - Wikipedia
“a bullshit management word for a process in which they
don’t understand” - Urban Dictionary
Definition

4. 3rd Party Plugins
● Promoted Builds Plugin
● Build Flow Plugin
● Build Pipeline Plugin
● Parameterized Trigger Plugin
Built-in Plugins
● Post-build Action (job chaining)
Current landscape

5. Issues

6. ● Officially supported
● Unification of previous approaches
● Define build workflows in code (Groovy)
● Some DSL elements
Jenkins Workflow Plugin

7. ● Suspendable (and resumable)
● Define workflow ‘stages’
● Complex logic (try/catch, parallel jobs, concurrency)
● Human approval (e.g. ready to deploy?)
● Visualisation (basic)
● Snippet generator
Features

8. ● Global codebase (across projects)
● Entire workflow in a single job
● Test your workflow code(?)
What this gives us

9. Classic Jenkins Workflow

10. Improved… (Jenkins Job Builder)

11. Further Improved... (Jenkins Job Builder +
Jenkins Workflow Plugin)

12. ● http://udaypal.com/2015-04-08-continuous-delivery-
using-jenkins-workflow/
● http://udaypal.com/jenkins-workflow-getting-started/
Want to find out more?

13. Vagrant VM with Jenkins + plugins:
❏ https://github.com/bsnape/vagrant-jenkins
Example workflow code:
❏ https://github.com/bsnape/jenkins-workflow-example

14. Workflow plugin announcement:
❏ http://jenkins-ci.org/content/workflow-plugin-10
Tour of features and working example:
❏ http://udaypal.com/2015-04-08-continuous-delivery-using-jenkins-workflow/
❏ http://udaypal.com/jenkins-workflow-getting-started/