Jenkins - Create a Jenkins job via groovy script that; cleans before checkout, shallow clone, sparse checkout only the Jenkinsfile and set lightweight - #jenkins #groovy #jenkins-job #jenkins-git #git #jenkinsfile

jenkins-create-job-scm-flow.groovy

#!groovy

// imports
import hudson.plugins.git.*
import hudson.plugins.git.extensions.*
import hudson.plugins.git.extensions.impl.*
import jenkins.model.Jenkins

// parameters
def jobParameters = [
  name:          'MyJob',
  description:   'Build of my STG environment : https://stg.mycompany.com',
  repository:    'git@github.com:my-company/my-repo.git',
  branch:        'master',
  credentialId:  'jenkins-key'
]

// define repo configuration
def branchConfig                =   [new BranchSpec(jobParameters.branch)]
def userConfig                  =   [new UserRemoteConfig(jobParameters.repository, null, null, jobParameters.credentialId)]
def cleanBeforeCheckOutConfig   =   new CleanBeforeCheckout()
def sparseCheckoutPathConfig    =   new SparseCheckoutPaths([new SparseCheckoutPath("Jenkinsfile")])
def cloneConfig                 =   new CloneOption(true, true, null, 3)
def extensionsConfig            =   [cleanBeforeCheckOutConfig,sparseCheckoutPathConfig,cloneConfig]
def scm                         =   new GitSCM(userConfig, branchConfig, false, [], null, null, extensionsConfig)

// define SCM flow
def flowDefinition = new org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.cps.CpsScmFlowDefinition(scm, "Jenkinsfile")

// set lightweight checkout
flowDefinition.setLightweight(true)

// get Jenkins instance
Jenkins jenkins = Jenkins.getInstance()

// create the job
def job = new org.jenkinsci.plugins.workflow.job.WorkflowJob(jenkins,jobParameters.name)

// define job type
job.definition = flowDefinition

// set job description
job.setDescription(jobParameters.description)

// save to disk
jenkins.save()
jenkins.reload()

Hi Ivan, can u help me for writing a jenkinsfile for the multibranch pipeline? I have written but I m facing one issue in the multibranch pipeline, there no feature for sparse checkout in Jenkins for multibranch, I have gitlab repository repo structure like for the master branch like
dir test1>folder A>microservice 1> dockerfile & jenkinsfile
>microservice 2>
>folder B
>folder C
dir test2
dir test3

Hi Ivan, can u help me for writing a jenkinsfile for the multibranch pipeline? I have written but I m facing one issue in the multibranch pipeline, there no feature for sparse checkout in Jenkins for multibranch, I have gitlab repository repo structure like for the master branch like
dir test1>folder A>microservice 1> dockerfile & jenkinsfile

microservice 2>
folder B
folder C
dir test2
dir test3

Hi @psingh2525,

Please check this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43293334/sparsecheckout-in-jenkinsfile-pipeline, I think is what you are looking for.

Cheers!