choose artifact from artifactory to deploy pipeline job in Jenkins

Question

Is this possible? Suppose I have 2 jobs. One for building artifact and upload it to artifactory with latest version. And another job to deploy the artifact to the server. But I would like to choose the artifact version. Supose A deploy was made and not working , so I redeploy and choose previous artifact (or the one I want to choose). Is this posible in jenkins in a pipleine project? Like a parametrized build or something like that.

Thanks

I have installed the artifactory plug in to upload/download. But I would like to know if there is a way to choose an artifac before build starts. With the artifactor plugin I believe the download or upload is inside code. — Chanafot, Oct 14 '18 at 13:47
If you know the artifact name, you can convert that into a parameter and pass that in your second job. You can find the artifact name from console output or directly in your slave. — mdabdullah, Oct 14 '18 at 14:14
no JRichardsz is not mandatory but is the only way I know to do this. What are the other options? — Chanafot, Oct 15 '18 at 13:01

Samy · Answer 1 · 2018-10-16T10:17:25.260

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It will work with the pipelin job . I am it in pipeline job only.

Example: https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Maven+Metadata+Plugin

Assume that you have 2 jobs .
Job A & Job B. (Both pipeline jobs.)
```
     Job A -> Build and push the artifacts to Artifactory. 
     Job B -> Fetch the artifact from Artifactory and deploy.
```
1. Install the Maven Meta Plugin . https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Maven+Metadata+Plugin
2. go to Job B
  1. "This build is parametrerized" checkbox, from the drop-down that appears select the "List maven artifact versions",
    configure the artifact you want to retrieve the versions
  2. Name the parameter as deploy_version
3. In Job B - > Select the version & Click Build.
4. In pipeline script receive the selected version as param.deploy_version.
5. Since you know the artifact version and artifact URLs . You can use CURL/httprequest plugin in Jenkisn to download the necessary
  artifact from Artifactory (I am using Maven Ansible artifactory
  plugin to download)
6. Continue with your deployment.

edited Oct 16 '18 at 10:17

answered Oct 15 '18 at 13:53

Samy

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I´m using a jenkins pipeline proyect, not a maven one, in which the mvn command is executed inside the groovy script in one of the steps of first job: mvn clean compile war:war. I´m looking for a second job that you can manually choose the artifact builded on first job. Is this possible? – Chanafot Oct 15 '18 at 14:05
I guess you should push the artifact build during the first job to Artifactory. In the second job configure the above mentioned to list the artifacts from artifactory/nexus. In the second job use the pipeline script to receive the selected artifact and pull it again to deploy it. – Samy Oct 15 '18 at 14:12
hmmm is this possible with a pipeline job instead maven? the link you said talks about maven: "JENKINS/Maven+Artifact+ChoiceListProvider+Plugin" – Chanafot Oct 15 '18 at 14:54
I Need exactly that but for a pipeline job and not maven job – Chanafot Oct 15 '18 at 14:55
@yiyito - I've edited the answer now .Hope its clear now. – Samy Oct 16 '18 at 10:17
I edited question. I did What you suggested but I´m getting that error. I edited and upload image with Jenkins and artifactory configuration as I have now. – Chanafot Oct 16 '18 at 15:40
it´s something related to maven-metadata.xml what XML is this refering to? I have no such file neither on artifactory nor on the script code. – Chanafot Oct 16 '18 at 15:48
I also tried with full URL , inside jenkins configuration , to the artifact group as in second image and got other issue. – Chanafot Oct 16 '18 at 16:23
hi unfortunately i can't able to see the attached images due to some restrictions.Please double check the configuration and play around with it. I am sure you can get it. – Samy Oct 24 '18 at 11:58
Glad that you fixed the issue. How did you resolved using the plugin i mentioned or found any other solutions? – Samy Oct 25 '18 at 06:46
hehe your solutions was great but I needed more detais to do so. but was good for first orientation. Will mark it as accepted man. thanks – Chanafot Oct 25 '18 at 18:56

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 15 '18 at 15:26

According to this answer :

https://stackoverflow.com/a/34781604/3957754

The artifactory plugin for Jenkins has the option to "resolve" artifacts, i.e. download them from Artifactory. But this may require the Pro version with payment $_$

Download artifact using artifactory jenkins plugin (With Payment)

Configure your artifactory plugin
- https://medium.com/@anusha.sharma3010/integrating-jenkins-with-artifactory-6d18974d163d
- https://www.jfrog.com/confluence/display/RTF/Jenkins+Artifactory+Plug-in
In resolve section, you could download your artifacts

Download artifact using commandline and maven

configure maven and artifactory authentication
- https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/examples/artifactory_and_gitlab/
- https://blog.bosch-si.com/developer/setting-up-maven-and-artifactory/
download artifact from artifactory

mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin:2.1:get \ -DrepoUrl=http://my_artifactory-url.com \ -Dartifact=groupId:artifactId:version

Source: How can I download a specific Maven artifact in one command line?

If you want, We can create a jenkins plugin to simple upload and download artifacts — JRichardsz, Oct 15 '18 at 15:27
First, choose one approach and try it. If it works to your requirements, We could start the plugin creation (java knowledge is required). I will wait for your confirmation. — JRichardsz, Oct 15 '18 at 15:56

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