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Linking Jobs in Jenkins

In this hands-on lab I am going to issue you a challenge: use Jenkins and its plugins to build an artifact. You will be using no less than three projects that need to be linked in order to produce the artifact. Are you up to the challenge?

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Level

Intermediate

Duration

1h 0m

Published

Jul 23, 2020

Challenge

Create project1
This project requires the Parameterized trigger plugin. Go to Manage Jenkins, then Manage Plugins, and install the parameterized trigger plugin.

Configure project1 to take a string parameter. Call it what you like. Set the default to what you like.

Create a build step for execute shell. Put in the following as the build step ($var is the name of the parameter you gave to the previous step):
```
echo "name="$var > project1.txt
```
Post build, archive the artifact project1.txt and fingerprint it.

Post build, this project should trigger project2 and send parameters from the project1.txt file.
Challenge

Create project2
This should be a parameterized project.
It should have one string parameter called name.
The build step should be:
```
echo "Hello" $name > project2.txt
```
The artifact project2.txt should be archived and fingerprinted.
Post build, this should trigger a build on project3.
Challenge

Create project3
This project requires the copy artifact plugin.

Go to Manage Jenkins and install the copy artifact plugin.

Create the project as a Freestyle job, in the build steps.

First, copy the project2.txt artifact from project2.
Second, create the project3 artifact by creating a shell build step:
```
content=`cat project2.txt`
echo $content "this is from project3." > project3.txt
```
Archive the file project3.txt and fingerprint the archive.
Verify that the file contains the required text.

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