Where does Jenkins store configuration files for the jobs it runs

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I m adding continuous integration to an EC2 project at work using Jenkins  The Jenkins machine itself is kept on an EC2 machine - one that might need to be taken offline and brought back on an entirely different EC2 instance at any point  We have a bunch of Puppet manifests allowing us to easily reinstall the software on the EC2 instance  but custom configuration files  like the ones for the jobs I create in Jenkins  would be deleted after the move   Now  if Jenkins stores what jobs are to be run on it in an XML file or set of XML files somewhere  I could set up a system where those files are committed to the version control server  and then downloaded back to a newly-created server as part of the puppet manifest  Does anyone know where these files are stored  I ve tried copying  var lib jenkins jobs  but that appears to store the output of Jenkins  jobs  not the input

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On Linux one can find the home directory of Jenkins looking for a file  that Jenkins  home contains  e g      find   -name  config xml    grep  jenkins   var lib jenkins config xml

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Jenkins 1 627  OS X 10 10 5  Users Shared Jenkins Home jobs  project name  config xml

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Jenkins stores some of the related builds data like the following   The working directory is stored in the directory  JENKINS HOME  workspace    Each job store its related temporal workspace folder in the directory  JENKINS HOME  workspace  JOBNAME    The configuration for all jobs stored in the directory  JENKINS HOME  jobs    Each job store its related builds data in the directory  JENKINS HOME  jobs  JOBNAME   Each job folder contains   The job configuration file is  JENKINS HOME  jobs  JOBNAME  config xml  The job builds are stored in  JENKINS HOME  jobs  JOBNAME  builds        See the Jenkins documentation for a visual representation and further details  JENKINS HOME   - config xml      jenkins root configuration    -   xml           other site-wide configuration files    - userContent     files in this directory will be served under your http   server userContent     - fingerprints    stores fingerprint records    - nodes           slave configurations    - plugins         stores plugins    - secrets         secretes needed when migrating credentials to other servers    - workspace  working directory for the version control system        -  JOBNAME   sub directory for each job    - jobs       -  JOBNAME        sub directory for each job            - config xml      job configuration file            - latest          symbolic link to the last successful build            - builds               -  BUILD ID       for each build                    - build xml       build result summary                    - log             log file                    - changelog xml   change log

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The best approach would be to keep your job configurations in a Jenkinsfile that live in source control

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Am adding few things related to jenkins configuration files storage   As per my understanding all config file stores in the machine or OS that you have installed jenkins   The jobs you are going to create in jenkins will be stored in jenkins server and you can find the config xml etc   here   After jenkins installation you will find jenkins workspace in server    cd gt jenkins jobs   cd gt jenkins jobs  ls    job1 job2 job3 config xml

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For the sake of completeness  macOS High Sierra  Jenkins 2 x  installation via Homebrew    jenkins jobs  project name  config xml  Complete overview about jenkins home  https   wiki jenkins io display JENKINS Administering Jenkins

[jenkins] Where does Jenkins store configuration files for the jobs it runs?

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