Simple groovy script to upgrade active plugins when new versions are available

keep-jenkins-plugins-uptodate.groovy

jenkins.model.Jenkins.getInstance().getUpdateCenter().getSites().each { site ->
  site.updateDirectlyNow(hudson.model.DownloadService.signatureCheck)
}

hudson.model.DownloadService.Downloadable.all().each { downloadable ->
  downloadable.updateNow();
}

def plugins = jenkins.model.Jenkins.instance.pluginManager.activePlugins.findAll {
  it -> it.hasUpdate()
}.collect {
  it -> it.getShortName()
}

println "Plugins to upgrade: ${plugins}"
long count = 0

jenkins.model.Jenkins.instance.pluginManager.install(plugins, false).each { f ->
  f.get()
  println "${++count}/${plugins.size()}.."
}

if(plugins.size() != 0 && count == plugins.size()) {
  jenkins.model.Jenkins.instance.safeRestart()
}

My favourite script

thanks @uncletall! I haven't used it in a very long time, as now I'm using a custom Docker image, based on the official jenkins/jenkins one, and leveraging the install-plugins.sh script.

It's not auto-magic as this one, but at least it's a bit more reproducible and stable.

@alecharp: This script is great.
It would be really helpful to modify the script to check if there is any way to upgrade only the plugins which have no compatibility warnings with the current Jenkins version.

@alecharp, can you share more about using the Docker image to have the latest Jenkins WAR and plugins? Could it be that you flush all existing JARs/plugins and keep appdata before updating the image?

I have made some work starting from this script. I made it detect plugins warnings or if any of them get deprecated before performing the update.
I have created a Jenkins pipeline that invokes the Groovy script and returns an alert if warnings or deprecated plugins are detected.
here is a link to the scripts
https://gist.github.com/taherbs/6d03b4d56ac4f1e7a119e64cf5d17f4c
Thank you @alecharp for the inspiration 🤘

@alecharp: This script is great. It would be really helpful to modify the script to check if there is any way to upgrade only the plugins which have no compatibility warnings with the current Jenkins version.

Does this fork not solve it?

Thanks for this! :)