Deploy Jenkins job from the command line and chrome notification for job result

Reason:

• Current my daily tasks are:
  1. Develop feature
  2. Create a git merge request
  3. Create a git tag
  4. Go to Jenkins site and deploy to a specify env and git tag above
  5. Wait for Jenkins build result
• So, I think I can make the process at step 4 and 5 more automatic

Solution:

• A script for deploy Jenkins from the command line
  • So we no need switch to Jenkins page, now you can do everything on you IDE
• A chrome extension for notifying when build success
  • Another solution is set up a webhook for Jenkins so it can send the result to Slack or Mattermost group. But I think it still makes spam for me, I just want to notify on some projects.

Preconditions:

• You must have Jenkins username and API token
  • API token get at Configure tab on the account info page

Script for deploy Jenkins from the command line

• It uses Jenkins API for send deploy request
• Basically, all of it is do this command

curl -v -X POST https://jenkins.com/job/admin-apibuild \
  --user yourusername:yourapitoken \
  --data-urlencode json='{"parameter": [{"name":"Environment", "value":"test"}, {"name":"COMMIT", "value":"dev"}]}'

• Value of parameter depend on the config of your Jenkins job
• I wrapper above curl command to Javascript file, so you need Node to run
• We can run a command like node scripts/deploy.js dev v1.1.1
  • You can custom to correct with your Jenkins config
• Source code at https://github.com/tungnt620/jenkins-auto

A chrome extension for notifying when build success

How it works

• We have a monitor server which uses for interval fetch status of jobs
  • We choose jobs to want to monitor
• This monitor server also serves an API get notifies which used by chrome ext
• Chrome ext interval fetch notifies from the monitor server and displays it.

Setup

• You can see detail at https://github.com/tungnt620/jenkins-auto

The end

• I think one way to boot productivity is to avoid context switch as much as possible.
• If you have any other ways, solutions please share with us