Jenkins : Azure AD Plugin



Plugin Information

View Azure AD on the plugin site for more information.

Older versions of this plugin may not be safe to use. Please review the following warnings before using an older version:

A Jenkins Plugin that supports authentication & authorization via Azure Active Directory.


Setup In Azure Active Directory

  1. Make sure your Jenkins server has enabled HTTPS. If your Jenkins instance is created by the Jenkins Solution Template, you can update your NGINX config file at /etc/nginx/sites-available/default. More configuration details can be found here.

  2. Open Azure Active Directory, in Properties, copy Directory ID, it will be used as tenant in Jenkins.

  3. Register an application in AAD, copy the Application ID, it will be used as Client ID.
  4. In Application setting page, add a Reply URL https://{your_jenkins_host}/securityRealm/finishLogin. Make the variable jenkinsURL set as https://{your_jenkins_host} for the file jenkins.model.JenkinsLocationConfiguration.xml in the $JENKINS_HOME folder.
  5. In Application setting page, click Keys, generate a new key, copy the value, it will be used as Client Secret in Jenkins.
  6. To configure Azure Active Directory Matrix-based security, you have to add your user/group value with pattern userName|groupName (principalName). The pattern userName|groupName (objectId) still works to make compatible with previous versions.Below two steps are optional since version 1.0.0. Without these steps:
  • You are not able to have autocompletion when adding user/group in Azure Active Directory Matrix.
  • You do not have the same privileges as the groups you belonged to.
  1. In Application setting page, click Required Permissions and select Windows Azure Active Directory, then select Read directory data permissions in Application permissions section.
  2. Click Grant Permissions. If you are not an admin in your tenant, please contact admin to grant the permissions which declared as require admin in Enable Access page. Wait for the permissions taking effects.

Setup In Jenkins

Click Manage Jenkins in the left menu, then click Configure Global Security, check Enable security

Enable Azure Authentication

To enable Azure Authentication, check Azure Active Directory and fill in the credential.

Click Verify Application to make sure your input is valid.

Enable Azure Authorization

To enable Azure Authentication, check Azure Active Directory Matrix-based security

Version 1.0.0 Migration Instruction

In version 1.0.0, this plugin upgrades from Microsoft identity platform v1.0 to v2.0. Before you upgrade ad plugin to version 1.0.0, please read following items first.

  1. Make sure your Jenkins server has enabled HTTPS. Microsoft identity platform v2.0 forces using HTTPS schema in reply uri for its applications. Please update the reply uri for your AAD application. You also need to update the url setting in `jenkins.model.JenkinsLocationConfiguration.xml` file and restart your Jenkins instance. If your Jenkins instance is created by the  Jenkins Solution Template, you can update your NGINX config file at /etc/nginx/sites-available/default. More configuration details can be found here.
  2. Go to your related AAD application, click `Manifest` to open the inline manifest editor. Replace the `optionalClaims` value as below. You can find more information about this.


        "optionalClaims": {
           "idToken": [
                 { 
                       "name": "family_name", 
                       "essential": false
                  },
                 { 
                       "name": "given_name", 
                       "essential": false
                  },
                               { 
                       "name": "upn", 
                       "essential": false
                  }
            ]
        },

Q: How to recovery if Jenkins keeps failing during the login phase?FAQ

A: You can disable the security from the config file (see https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Disable+security)

Q: Why getting a error "insufficient privileges to complete the operation" even having granted the permission?

A: It takes rather long time for the privileges to take effect, which could be 10-20 minutes. So just wait for a while and try again.

Change Log

1.0.0 (2019-05-30)

This release includes breaking changes for Azure Identity platform, please follow up wiki to migrate.

  • Bump Jenkins version to 2.138.3
  • Upgrade Microsoft identity platform from v1.0 to v2.0
  • Add support for configuration as code
  • Admin permission for tenant is no more necessary
  • Jenkins server must enable HTTPS

0.3.4 (2019-04-30)

0.3.3 (2019-04-11)

  • Support named groups and users

0.3.2 (2019-01-18)

  • Fix seed authentication issue

0.3.1 (2018-09-19)

  • Upgrade Azure commons to 0.2.7
  • Use UPN as Jenkins user id

0.3.0 (2018-02-09)

Jenkins under version 2.60 is not supported any more!

  • Upgrade the dependency of matrix-auth to 2.2

0.2.0 (2018-01-18)

  • Support project-based authorization
  • Improve security

0.1.1 (2017-12-07)

  • Fixed the CSRF protection issue.

0.1.0 (2017-12-01)

  • Initial release