Parametrized Jenkins Job Demonstration

Learning Resources for DevOps, SRE, Cloud & Engineering Management

Takes user inputs parameters to select branch and environment (Run Via Jenkins Freestyle Job)

Follow the tutorial video to get the configuration done. Essentially, the following steps are to be followed:

1. Define the github repo url/credentials in the Jenkins Freestyle Job.
2. Check the "This project is parameterized" and enable Choice Parameter with valid choices ("Red" or "Blue" in this example.) the build phase select the shell script option and add the following:

#!/bin/bash
if [[ "${choice}" == "Red" ]]; then
mv html/index.red html/index.html
else
mv html/index.blue html/index.html
fi

3. In the build phase select the shell script option and add the jenkins-cicd.sh script as below.

   chmod +x jenkins-cicd.sh
   bash jenkins-cicd.sh
   

4. Save the job and execute the build. Follow the execution via console logs.

Open browser at http://IP-Address-of-Docker-Server:8888/ to view the website.

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