Welcome to jenskipper’s documentation!

Jenskipper is a tool to manage Jenkins from your VCS and the command line.

Similar tools already exist (jenkins-job-builder and job-dsl-plugin), but they are both based on domain-specific languages and try to abstract the jobs configurations. Jenskipper takes a more straightforward approach and works directly on Jenkins’ XML, which has many advantages:

• Jenskipper can import your existing Jenkins jobs;
• all Jenkins plugins are supported in a consistent manner;
• the Jenkins GUI can still be used to edit or create new jobs, or learn how to configure new Jenkins plugins in Jenskipper;
• Jenskipper should be easier to learn.

The XML is extended by the powerful Jinja templating language, to permit factorization of build scripts and jobs.

Contents:

• Getting Started
  • Installation
  • Import your jobs
  • Start factorizing your jobs
  • Push jobs to the server
  • Fetching new jobs from the server
• Reference manual
  • Jobs
  • Defining jobs pipelines