How to trigger a Jenkins job from a status change in Jira

jenkins jira jenkins-plugins jira-plugin jenkins-jira-trigger
user2131710 picture user2131710 · May 6, 2015 · Viewed 18.4k times · Source

I have been looking for a while now for a way to trigger a Jenkins job from the status or a ticket/story in Jira changing status. To give a more detailed example when my team moves a ticket to the 'ready for test' column we would like to be able to trigger a sanity test pack in Jenkins, the ideal situation would then be that we are able to post the results (generated as a html) as a comment on the ticket within Jira. Failing that we would like to be able to publish the results as simply pass/fail.

I have recently been looking at the Jenkins Jira plugin but this does not seem to have the functionality to work both ways, in other words it can post results after a job has run but you cannot trigger the job from a change of status in Jira. Is there any such plugin available or is it something that we will need to create ourselves?

Cheers in advance

Answer

Stan E picture Stan E · May 6, 2015

So, basicly there are webhooks in jira (https://developer.atlassian.com/jiradev/jira-architecture/webhooks). With it you can configure it to trigger specific url on issue status change. The specific url should be jenkins API, for example for triggering a build you should call an external url like (if you are building with parameters): http://server/job/myjob/buildWithParameters?token=TOKEN&PARAMETER=Value

Some more info https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Remote+access+API

Related questions

Updating Jira tickets from Jenkins workflow (jenkinsfile)

How can I update a jira issue from within a Jenkinsfile (jenkins-worflow/pipeline)? Is there a way I could use the Jira Issue Updater plugin as a step in the Jenkinsfile? I know I could use the Jira RestAPI, but …

Read More
How to restart Jenkins manually?

I've just started working with Jenkins and have run into a problem. After installing several plugins it said it needs to be restarted and went into a "shutting down" mode, but never restarts. How do I do a manual restart?

Read More
How do I schedule jobs in Jenkins?

I added a new job in Jenkins, which I want to schedule periodically. From Configure job, I am checking the "Build Periodically" checkbox and in the Schedule text field added the expression: 15 13 * * * But it does not run at the scheduled …

Read More