Doing the same in declarative pipeline syntax, below are few examples:
stage('master-branch-stuff') {
when {
branch 'master'
}
steps {
echo 'run this stage - ony if the branch = master branch'
}
}
stage('feature-branch-stuff') {
when {
branch 'feature/*'
}
steps {
echo 'run this stage - only if the branch name started with feature/'
}
}
stage('expression-branch') {
when {
expression {
return env.BRANCH_NAME != 'master';
}
}
steps {
echo 'run this stage - when branch is not equal to master'
}
}
stage('env-specific-stuff') {
when {
environment name: 'NAME', value: 'this'
}
steps {
echo 'run this stage - only if the env name and value matches'
}
}
More effective ways coming up -
https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-41187
Also look at -
https://jenkins.io/doc/book/pipeline/syntax/#when
The directive beforeAgent true can be set to avoid spinning up an agent to run the conditional, if the conditional doesn't require git state to decide whether to run:
when { beforeAgent true; expression { return isStageConfigured(config) } }
Release post and docs
UPDATE
New WHEN Clause
REF: https://jenkins.io/blog/2018/04/09/whats-in-declarative
equals - Compares two values - strings, variables, numbers, booleans - and returns true if they’re equal. I’m honestly not sure how we missed adding this earlier! You can do "not equals" comparisons using the not { equals ... } combination too.
changeRequest - In its simplest form, this will return true if this Pipeline is building a change request, such as a GitHub pull request. You can also do more detailed checks against the change request, allowing you to ask "is this a change request against the master branch?" and much more.
buildingTag - A simple condition that just checks if the Pipeline is running against a tag in SCM, rather than a branch or a specific commit reference.
tag - A more detailed equivalent of buildingTag, allowing you to check against the tag name itself.