Delivery Pipeline

Summary

Visualisation of Continuous Delivery pipelines. Renders pipelines based on upstream/downstream jobs or Jenkins pipelines. Provides a full screen view for information radiators.
In Continuous Delivery, feedback and visualisation of the delivery process is one of the most important aspects. When using Jenkins as a build/CI/CD server, it is with the Delivery Pipeline plugin possible to visualise one or more delivery pipelines in the same view, even in full screen.

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Jenkins jobs are tagged with a stage and a task name. In the screenshot above, the pipeline consists of three stages called Commit stage, Test stage and Deployment. The first stage consists of two tasks called "Build, package and run unit tests" and "Build and publish artifacts". Each task corresponds to a traditional Jenkins job.

The plugin requires your pipelines to be built using traditional Jenkins jobs with downstream/upstream relationships or using Jenkins pipelines. For downstream/upstream jobs, automatic promotion steps use the Parameterized Trigger Plugin while manual steps are provided using the Build Pipeline plugin manual trigger (see example with manual trigger below). Aggregated view shows the latest version for each stage.

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Full screen view

Example screenshot when using the Delivery Pipeline plugin in full screen view (suitable for information radiators):

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Configuration

Using traditional Jenkins jobs

  • Create jobs with downstream/upstream relationships.
  • Tag your Jenkins jobs with which stage it belongs to and the task name in the "Delivery Pipeline configuration" section.

Jenkins pipelines

  • Create a Jenkins pipeline. No additional configuration is needed as the stage nodes are used for rendering the pipeline view. Tasks can be defined using the task pipeline step. Multi-branch pipelines are also supported.
  • The following blog post shows how to use task's inside pipeline stages for a more fine-grained visualization of pipelines using the Delivery Pipeline plugin: http://blog.diabol.se/?p=1021

View

  • Create a view by clicking the +
  • Choose "Delivery Pipeline View" for traditional jobs with upstream/downstream dependencies, or "Delivery Pipeline View for Jenkins pipelines" when using Jenkins pipelines. Give the view a name.
  • Configure the view by choosing the number of pipeline instances, component name and choose the first Jenkins job for each pipeline (applicable for traditional Jenkins jobs).

Manual Triggers

  • Make sure that the Build Pipeline plugin is installed and enabled.
  • Create or edit a job and add a Postbuild action

Known issues

JUnit plugin needs to be installed and enabled.
If arrows are missing between the stages, please take look at JENKINS-28055

Need help

Join our Google Group https://groups.google.com/forum/\#\\!forum/delivery-pipeline-plugin\\\|https://groups.google.com/forum/\#\\!forum/delivery-pipeline-plugin (https://groups.google.com/forum/\#\\!forum/delivery-pipeline-plugin)

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Changelog

Starting from version 0.10.1, the Delivery Pipeline Plugin is released completely automatically and the generated release notes can be found on GitHub:

https://github.com/Diabol/delivery-pipeline-plugin/releases/

0.10.0 (Nov 16 2016)

https://github.com/Diabol/delivery-pipeline-plugin/releases/tag/delivery-pipeline-plugin-0.10.0

0.9.12 (Jun 8 2016)

https://github.com/Diabol/delivery-pipeline-plugin/releases/tag/delivery-pipeline-plugin-0.9.12

0.9.11 (May 24 2016)

0.9.10 (May 20 2016)

0.9.9 (Mar 28 2016)

0.9.8 (Dec 12 2015)

0.9.7 (Aug 27 2015)

0.9.6 (Aug 26 2015)

Release 0.9.5 (Jul 28 2015)

  • (error) Manual trigger for the downstream job is shown even if the build failed JENKINS-28937 PR
  • (error) Rebuild not respecting permissions JENKINS-28845 PR
  • (plus) Show promotions and description on the pipeline PR PR PR
  • (info) Fixed deprecations and small fixes PR PR
  • (error) Successful build should not show solid green background color JENKINS-28837 PR
  • (error) Better description of columns property JENKINS-29324 PR
  • (error) Correct verbiage in some of the help text PR
  • (error) 'Enable start of new pipeline build' does not work with parameterized trigger JENKINS-29133 PR
  • (info) Better help text for TokenMacro:s PR

Release 0.9.4 (09 Jun 2015)

  • (info) Pointer cursor for rebuild and manual task PR
  • (info) Add simple title to triggers PR
  • (plus) Show total build time JENKINS-22482 PR

Release 0.9.3 (02 May 2015)

Release 0.9.2 (01 May 2015)

  • (error) Catch case where too many capture groups defined PR
  • (error) Join Plugin & Delivery Pipeline Plugin: View logs warnings about existing downstream projects JENKINS-28619 PR

Release 0.9.1 (17 May 2015)

Release 0.9.0 (15 May 2015)

Release 0.8.11 (23 March 2015)

  • (error) Support jobs organized under folders (RegExp) JENKINS-27270
  • (error) NPE when using jobs with the same name in different folders JENKINS-27539

Release 0.8.10 (17 March 2015)

  • (info) Speed improvements for view
  • (error) Prevent a stack overflow if a project eventually cycles back to itself JENKINS-27298

Release 0.8.9 (04 February 2015)

  • (error) Very slow when there are many folders and projects. JENKINS-26746
  • (error) Can't handle two manual triggers triggers same downstream job JENKINS-26282

Release 0.8.8 (10 December 2014)

Release 0.8.7 (16 November 2014)

  • (info) Dropped dependency to jQuery-UI JENKINS-24296
  • (error) NPE when View is configured with a non existing firstJob JENKINS-24644
  • (error) MalformedUrlException fills up logs JENKINS-25256
  • (error) Loading animation has old size JENKINS-25279
  • (info) Manual triggered reexecuting jobs which has failed dont show up as status queued JENKINS-25361
  • (error) Unable to trigger manual jobs when build-pipeline-plugin 1.4.4 is installed JENKINS-25607

Release 0.8.6 (26 August 2014)

Release 0.8.5 (17 August 2014)

  • (info) Show Views TabBar in pipeline default view JENKINS-24173
  • (error) Multi-configuration projects display with wrong Delivery Pipeline Stage Name JENKINS-22654
  • (error) Absolute URLs in delivery pipeline break reverse proxy setupsJENKINS-24019

Release 0.8.4 (07 August 2014)

Release 0.8.3 (03 August 2014)

Release 0.8.2 (02 July 2014)

  • (error) Trigger button is not rendered correctly on Firefox JENKINS-23537
  • (info) Do not display 'Aggregated view' if no pipeline instances JENKINS-23536
  • (info) Suggest removing folder prefix if present when failing to trigger manual step JENKINS-23532
  • (error) Send crumb if "Prevent Cross Site Request Forgery exploits" if enabled JENKINS-23589

Release 0.8.1 (16 June 2014)

Release 0.8.0 (14 May 2014)

Release 0.7.5 (03 May 2014)

Release 0.7.4 (14 April 2014)

Release 0.7.3 (03 April 2014)

  • (error) Pipelines are mixed up when same stage/step names are used JENKINS-22423

Release 0.7.2 (17 March 2014)

Release 0.7.1 (15 March 2014)

  • (error) Delivery Pipeline View only shows first component JENKINS-22189

Release 0.7.0 (10 March 2014)

Release 0.6.10 (30 January 2014)

Release 0.6.9 (20 January 2014)

  • (plus) Add pipelines dynamically with regular expressions JENKINS-20717

Release 0.6.8 (07 January 2014)

Release 0.6.7 (22 November 2013)

Release 0.6.6 (20 November 2013)

Release 0.6.5 (14 November 2013)

  • (error) various pipelines have no color (Bug when first job in pipeline has an upstream job) JENKINS-20539
  • (plus) Show SCM changes in pipeline view JENKINS-20517

Release 0.6.4 (06 November 2013)

Release 0.6.3 (04 November 2013):

Release 0.6.2 (18 October 2013):

  • (error) Update helptexts JENKINS-19972
  • (info) Placeholder for logo JENKINS-20015
  • (error) Cant use SVN_REVISION as pipeline version JENKINS-20099
  • (info) Updated style for fullscreen
  • (error) Removed guava dependency since it is already in Jenkins to reduce artefact size
  • (plus) Added a 20 second timeout if slow network

Release 0.6.1 (08 October 2013)

  • First public release