Export import jobs in Jenkins

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Is it possible to exchange jobs between 2 different Jenkins   I m searching for a way to export import jobs

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Job Import plugin is the easy way here to import jobs from another Jenkins instance  Just need to provide the URL of the source Jenkins instance  The Remote Jenkins URL can take any of the following types of URLs    http    JENKINS - get all jobs on remote instance http    JENKINS job  JOBNAME - get a single job http    JENKINS view  VIEWNAME - get all jobs in a particular view

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In my Jenkins instance  version 1 548  the configuration file is at    var lib jenkins jobs -the-project-name- config xml  Owned by jenkins user and jenkins group with 644 permissions  Copying the file to and from here should work  I haven t tried changing it directly but have backed-up the config from this spot in case the project needs to be setup again

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If you have exported the config xml then use the same to import  curl -k -X POST  https     lt user gt   lt token gt   lt jenkins url gt  createItem name  lt job name gt   --header  quot Content-Type  application xml quot  -d  config xml  I am connecting via HTTPS and disabled certificate validation using -k   This is how to generate user api token on Jenkins  Jenkins REST API details can be seen if you click the link with same name at bottom right corner of your Jenkins instance

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The most easy way  with direct access to the machine is to copy the job folder from first jenkins to another one  you can exclude workspaces - workspace folder   because the whole job configuration is stored in the xml file on the disk   Then in the new jenkins just reload configuration in the global settings  admin access is required  should be enough  if not  then you will need to restart Jenkins tool   Another way can be to use plugins mentioned above this post   edit   - in case you can probably also exclude modules folders

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Go to your Jenkins server s front page  click on REST API at the bottom of the page      Create Job   To create a new job  post config xml to this URL with query parameter name JOBNAME  You need to send a Content-Type  application xml header  You ll get 200 status code if the creation is successful  or 4xx 5xx code if it fails  config xml is the format Jenkins uses to store the project in the file system  so you can see examples of them in the Jenkins home directory  or by retrieving the XML configuration of existing jobs from  job JOBNAME config xml

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In a web browser visit   http    jenkinshost  job  jobname  config xml   Just save the file to your disk

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Simple php script worked for me   Export           add all job codes in the array  jobs   array  job1    job2    job3     foreach   jobs as  value        fwrite STDOUT   value     n   or die  Unable to open file          path    http   server1 8080 jenkins job    value   config xml        myfile   fopen  value   xml    w        fwrite  myfile  file get contents  path        fclose  myfile       Import    lt  php     add all job codes in the array  jobs   array  job1    job2    job3     foreach   arr as  value        fwrite STDOUT   value     n   or die  Unable to open file          cmd    java -jar jenkins-cli jar -s http   server2 8080 jenkins  create-job    value    lt     value   xml       echo exec  cmd

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A one-liner     curl -s http   OLD JENKINS job JOBNAME config xml   curl -X POST  http   NEW JENKINS createItem name JOBNAME  --header  Content-Type  application xml  -d  -   With authentication     curl -s http     lt USER gt   lt API TOKEN gt  OLD JENKINS job JOBNAME config xml   curl -X POST  http     lt USER gt   lt API TOKEN gt  NEW JENKINS createItem name JOBNAME  --header  Content-Type  application xml  -d  -   With Crumb  if CSRF is active  see details here    Get crumb with     CRUMB OLD   curl -s  http    lt USER gt   lt API TOKEN gt  OLD JENKINS crumbIssuer api xml xpath concat   crumbRequestField       crumb      CRUMB NEW   curl -s  http    lt USER gt   lt API TOKEN gt  NEW JENKINS crumbIssuer api xml xpath concat   crumbRequestField       crumb      Apply crumb with -H CRUMB     curl -s -H  CRUMB OLD http     lt USER gt   lt API TOKEN gt  OLD JENKINS job JOBNAME config xml   curl -X POST -H  CRUMB NEW  http     lt USER gt   lt API TOKEN gt  NEW JENKINS createItem name JOBNAME  --header  Content-Type  application xml  -d  -

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This does not work for existing jobs  however there is Jenkins job builder   This allows one to keep job definitions in yaml files and in a git repo which is very portable

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For those of us in the Windows world who may or may not have Bash available  here s my PowerShell port of Katu and Larry Cai s approach  Hope it helps someone         Config vars        serverUri    http   localhost 8080     URI of your Jenkins server  jenkinsCli    C  Program Files  x86  Jenkins war WEB-INF jenkins-cli jar    Path to jenkins-cli jar on your machine  destFolder    C  Jenkins Backup     Output folder  will be created if it doesn t exist   destFile    jenkins-jobs zip    Output filename  will be overwritten if it exists                             work   Join-Path   System IO Path   GetTempPath      System IO Path   GetRandomFileName    New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path  work   Out-Null   Suppress output noise echo  Created a temp working folder   work    jobs    java -jar  jenkinsCli -s  serverUri list-jobs  echo  Found    jobs Length  existing jobs    jobs    foreach   j in  jobs         outfile   Join-Path  work   j xml      java -jar  jenkinsCli -s  serverUri get-job  j   Out-File  outfile   echo  Saved    jobs Length  jobs to temp XML files   New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force -Path  destFolder   Out-Null   Suppress output noise echo  Found  or created   destFolder folder    destPath   Join-Path  destFolder  destFile Get-ChildItem  work -Filter   xml        Write-Zip -Level 9 -OutputPath  destPath -FlattenPaths       Out-Null   Suppress output noise echo  Copied    jobs Length  jobs to  destPath   Remove-Item  work -Recurse -Force echo  Removed temp working folder

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There s a plugin called Job Import Plugin that may be what you are looking for   I have used it   It does have issues with importing projects from a server that doesn t allow anonymous access   For Completeness  If you have command line access to both  you can do the procedure already mentioned by Khez for Moving  Copying and Renaming Jenkins Jobs

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It is very easy just download plugin name   Job Import Plugin  Enter the URL of your Remote Jenkins server and it will import the jobs automatically

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Jenkins has a rather good wiki  albeit hard to read when you re new to CI software     They offer a simple solution for moving jobs between servers  The trick probably was the need to reload config from the Jenkins Configuration Page   Update 2020 03 10  The JenkinsCI landscape has changed a lot    I ve been using Job DSL for a while now  We have a SEED Job that generates the rest of the jobs   This helps us both recreate or move for the Jenkins server whenever needed    You could also version those files for even more maintainability

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Thanks to Larry Cai s answer I managed to create a script to backup all my Jenkins jobs  I created a job that runs this every week  In case someone finds it useful  here it is      bin bash  IFS for jobs with spaces  SAVEIFS  IFS IFS   echo -en   n b   for i in   java -jar  run jenkins war WEB-INF jenkins-cli jar -s http   server 8080  list-jobs    do    java -jar  run jenkins war WEB-INF jenkins-cli jar -s http   server 8080  get-job   i   gt    i  xml  done IFS  SAVEIFS mkdir deploy tar cvfj  jenkins-jobs tar bz2      xml

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As a web user  you can export by going to Job Config History  then exporting XML   I m in the situation of not having access to the machine Jenkins is running on and wanted to export as a backup   As for importing the xml as a web user  I d still like to know

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Importing Jobs Manually  Alternate way  Upload the Jobs on to Git  Version Control  Basically upload config xml of the Job   If Linux Servers   cd  var lib jenkins jobs  lt Job name gt   Download the config xml from Git   Restart the Jenkins

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Jenkins export jobs to a directory       bin bash     SAVEIFS  IFS     IFS   echo -en   n b       declare -i j 0     for i in   java -jar jenkins-cli jar -s http   server 8080 jenkins list-jobs  --username      --password           do     let  j         echo  j      if    j -gt 283      If you have more jobs do it in chunks as it will terminate in the middle of the process  So Resume your job from where it ends       then     java -jar jenkins-cli jar -s http   lxvbmcbma 8080 jenkins get-job --username      --password        i   gt    i  xml      echo  done       fi     done   Import jobs  for f in   xml  do echo  Processing   f     file       truncate the  xml extention and load the xml file for job creation java -jar jenkins-cli jar -s http   server 8080 jenkins create-job   f       lt   f done

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Probably use jenkins command line is another option  see https   wiki jenkins-ci org display JENKINS Jenkins CLI   create-job  Creates a new job by reading stdin as a configuration XML file  get-job  Dumps the job definition XML to stdout   So you can do   java -jar jenkins-cli jar -s http   server get-job myjob  gt  myjob xml java -jar jenkins-cli jar -s http   server create-job newmyjob  lt  myjob xml   It works fine for me and I am used to store in inside my version control system

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