Converts a Jenkins job's config.xml to Job DSL

Table of Contents

• What is it?
• Prerequisites
• Building
• Running
• Configuration
• Publishing

This is a tool for converting a Jenkins job's config.xml to a Job DSL script

The only thing you should need to get up and running with this is a valid JDK installation

You can build the jar as follows:

git clone https://github.com/fergalgribben/jenkinsxml2jobdsl
cd jenkinsxml2jobdsl
./gradlew build

Run the jar with the following command:

java -jar build/libs/jenkinsxml2jobdsl.jar -u <jenkins username> -a <jenkins api token> -j <jenkins server> -p <jenkins port> job1 job2 ... jobN

The converter will write the converted Job DSL scripts to the jobs/ directory

The following command line flags are supported:

The converter accepts a list of space-delimited job names as they are displayed under the "Project name" field of the job configuration page in Jenkins

On the Jenkins instance you want to deploy the Job DSL scripts against, you need to have the Job DSL plugin installed, and a seed job created

With a seed job created, configure the job, and navigate to the build actions section of the configuration. Add the "Process Job DSLs" build step, and either paste in a generated Job DSL script, or use the file browser to point to a file on disk

Save the configuration, and then run the seed job. The Job DSL plugin will create a new Jenkins job, which will appear on the Jenkins home page.