Q: Can I trigger a Jenkins job from a Maven plugin?

Question

The setup is as follows:

• Step 1: I am developing on a windows 10 machine
• Step 2: Building artifacts with Maven (using powershell)
• Step 3: Go to (semi-local) Jenkins which is running in a Linux VM on my machine & trigger a Jenkins job that syncs and deploys my artifacts to the application server running on the VM.

Q: Is it possible to automate/merge Steps 2 and 3 in this scenario?

(Building and deploying each takes several minutes)

Answer 1

Yes you can.

I suggest you use webhooks (github, gitlab, bitbucket,...)

Steps will be :

1. Install some plugin in your jenkins in order to expose a job as public url.
2. Configure your webhook in git provider adding url created in step 1
3. Push some changes to your code
4. Your git provider detect this event and execute the url created in step 1
5. Your jenkins job is launched. Put your mvn commands and deploy commands in this job. I suggest you use jenkins pipeline job.

Contact me if you need some help.

Post step by step :

https://jrichardsz.github.io/devops/devops-with-git-and-jenkins-using-webhooks

Answer 2

Yes, you can.

Create a custom goal which will trigger the Jenkins with an URL.

But, ideally, I would suggest to build and deploy using Jenkins by fetching the code from the repository when there is a change