How to invoke a jenkins pipeline A in another jenkins pipeline B

Question

I have two Jenkins pipelines, let's say pipeline-A and pipeline-B. I want to invoke pipeline-A in pipeline-B. How can I do this?

(pipeline-A is a subset of pipeline-B. Pipeline-A is responsible for doing some routine stuff which can be reused in pipeline-B)

I have installed Jenkins 2.41 on my machine.

Answer 1

Following solution works for me:

pipeline {
    agent
    {
        node {
                label 'master'
                customWorkspace "${env.JobPath}"
              }
    }

    stages 
    {
        stage('Start') {
            steps {
                sh 'ls'
            }
        }

        stage ('Invoke_pipeline') {
            steps {
                build job: 'pipeline1', parameters: [
                string(name: 'param1', value: "value1")
                ]
            }
        }

        stage('End') {
            steps {
                sh 'ls'
            }
        }
    }
}

Adding link of the official documentation of "Pipeline: Build Step" here: https://jenkins.io/doc/pipeline/steps/pipeline-build-step/

Answer 2

A little unclear if you want to invoke another pipeline script or job, so I'll answer both:

Pipeline script

The "load" step will execute the other pipeline script. If you have both scripts in the same directory, you can load it like this:

def pipelineA = load "pipeline_A.groovy"
pipelineA.someMethod()

Other script (pipeline_a.groovy):

def someMethod() {
    //do something
}

return this

Pipeline job

If you are talking about executing another pipeline job, the build job step in your Jenkinsfile can accomplish this:

build job: '<Project name>', propagate: true, wait: true

propagate: Propagate errors

wait: Wait for completion

If you have parameters for the job, you can add them like this:

build job: '<Project name>', parameters: [[$class: 'StringParameterValue', name: 'param1', value: 'test_param']]

Answer 3

As mentioned by @Matias Snellingen and @Céline Aussourd, in the case of launching a multibranch job you have to specify the branch to build like this :

stage ('Invoke_pipeline') {
    steps {
        build job: 'pipeline1/master', parameters: [
        string(name: 'param1', value: "value1")
        ]
    }
}

In my case it solved the problem.

Answer 4

I am going to post my solution, which is similar to @Michael COLL, @Matias Snellingen, and @Céline Aussourd. For the multibranch pipeline I am using the following code in Jenkinsfile to trigger my multibranch B with multibranch A (in the example there are two cases for pipeline and multibranch pipeline):

post {      
      always {
            echo 'We are in post part and Jenkins build with QA tests is going to be triggered.'
            // For triggering Pipeline
            //build job: 'WGF-QA WITH ALLURE', parameters: [string(name: 'QA-Automation', value: 'value from Build pipeline')]
            // For triggering Multibranch Pipeline
            build job: 'Testing QA/QA Selenium Tests/feature%2FGET-585', parameters: [string(name: 'QA-Automation', value: 'value from Build pipeline')]
      } 
    }

Just be sure to define the whole path to the branch as is defined in the case and instead of / in branch name use %2F (feature/GET-585 -> feature%2FGET-585).

Answer 5

To add to what @matias-snellingen said. If you have multiple functions, the return this should be under the function that will be called in the main pipeline script. For example in :

def someMethod() {
   helperMethod1() 
   helperMethod2()
} 
return this 

def helperMethod1(){ 
   //do stuff
} 

def helperMethod2(){
  //do stuff
}

The someMethod() is the one that will be called in the main pipeline script

Answer 6

Another option is to create a package, load it and execute it from the package.

package name.of.package
import groovy.json.*

def myFunc(var1) {
return result
}

Than consume it

@Library('name_of_repo')
import name.of.package.* 
utils = new name_of_pipeline()
// here you can invoke
utils.myFunc(var)

hope it helps