What are seed jobs in Jenkins and how does it work?

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Sreevalsa E picture Sreevalsa E · Jun 9, 2016 · Viewed 11.6k times · Source

What are seed jobs in Jenkins and how does it work ?

Can we create a new job from seed job without using github ?

Answer

Alex O picture Alex O · Jun 9, 2016

That depends on context. Jenkins itself does not provide "seed jobs".

There's plugins that allow creating jobs from other jobs, like the excellent Job-DSL plugin. With that, you can create jobs where a groovy script creates a larger number of jobs for you.

The Job-DSL plugin refers to those jobs as "seed jobs" (but they're regular freestyle jobs). The Job-DSL plugin does not require a github connection.

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