Hi, On 03 Sep 2015, at 01:36, milki milk <nitesha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So the article only mentions 2 methods - Cloudbees Template Plugin and > Jenkins Job DSL. There are at least two other alternatives I know about - > Jenkins Job Builder and Workflow. Were these and possibly other alternatives > explored as well? Well, the article was already quite long anyway, didn't want to bore everyone away :) Job DSL Plugin and Jenkins Job Builder both try to solve the same problem, but have different approaches. Jenkins Job Builder runs as an external process, which has the disadvantage that it does not know about current Jenkins state, so it has to keep it's own cache. Also, it uses Yaml for its templates, which limits the expressive power of what templates can do. They had to invent their own syntax for interpolating variables, and do inheritance, for example. There are also similarities. Both can only do what you could already do manually with Jenkins, but now do it in an automated way. Both have to solve the problem to support all the different Jenkins plugins out there, and both provide a nice way to easily use not yet supported plugins yourself. Although its Yaml files are not a programming language, one could still call Jenkins Job Builder from a programming language, so I guess we could have done some of the stuff that we did with Job DSL Plugin. But we already had an in-house mechanism using Rest API, which suffered from the limitation of not having access to current Jenkins internal state, so we didn't want to go down that road again. Now, Workflow Plugin is an entirely different beast, which solves different problem. It defines a new type of job with new capabilities and as such is not really an alternative, but more an enhancement to the other two. It is perfectly valid to use Job-DSL Plugin to generate Workflow jobs for example, and we are currently investigating how to incorporate this in our existing jobs. Marc -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/D68D1D29-34B1-43B7-8950-2A11F0114D15%40ebay.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
