Dynamically set Jenkins node

This post explains how to dynamically/programmatically set the node a Jenkins/Hudson job will run on. This is relatively easy to do statically, using the NodeLabel Parameter Plugin, but trickier to do programmatically.

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Tags: ci, continuousdeployment, continuousintegration, devops, hudson, jenkins

Running Jenkins jobs sequentially

I am a huge fan of the Jenkins continuous integration tool, using it not just for continuous integration, but also continuous delivery, server monitoring and performance testing.

Although using Jenkins is normally a breeze, I recently had a need to run several Jenkins jobs sequentially and it proved a little trickier than expected, so I thought worth posting about.

Basically, I wanted to call a database backup job before calling the deploy build job, which obviously shouldn’t be done in parallel. After a bit of research, I found a number of ways to have Jenkins run jobs sequentially.
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Tags: agile, ci, continuousintegration, devops, hudson, jenkins