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px5x2
px5x2

Reputation: 1565

Jenkins "selective" matrix build [matrix-project-plugin]

Matrix plugin allows us doing multi-dimensional builds based on some user-defined or built-in axes. However when we trigger the matrix build, Jenkins starts build for all cartesian product builds. QUESTION: I wonder is there a way to trigger a build for a single matrix entry or am I on a wrong path?

Some visualization:

axis 1 variables (branch) -> master branch1 branch2

axis 2 variables (app type) -> api web

axis 3 variables (deploy target) -> test stage live

In this specific case jenkins comes up with a 3-dimensional cube of jobs containing 3x2x3=18 builds in it, and when I trigger build that matrix project all of them starts. What I want here is, I should able to select axis variable for each axis (ie from multiselect list), and based on those selections jenkins should build only corresponding items. For instance;

axis 1 -> branch1

axis 2 -> api

axis 3 -> test stage

Hence jenkins should execute only 2 jobs.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 760

Answers (1)

KeepCalmAndCarryOn
KeepCalmAndCarryOn

Reputation: 9075

You want the Matrix Combination Plugin which will prompt you for the combinations you want

This plugin allows a user to choose which matrix combinations he wants to run, as opposed to the default behaviour where jenkins runs all combinations: Using:

After clicking the build, the user gets a html table with a checkbox for each matrix combination.

After clicking the submit button, only checked combinations will run.

Upvotes: 2

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