Jenkins has a very rich catalog of plugins and it's quite easy to install and update them via UI. BTW, when you want to add tons of plugin via UI, it's a fairly long and boring procedure.
Hopefully, mass installation (or update) could be easy using a simple bash script (curl/python required) :
Create a file containing plugins to be installed (or updated), ie iplugins :
analysis-core
audit-trail
build-flow-plugin
buildgraph-view
build-metrics
build-timeout
changelog-history
claim
config-file-provider
configurationslicing
console-column-plugin
dashboard-view
greenballs
htmlpublisher
mercurial
sonar
ssh-agent
thucydides
timestamper
viewVC
WebSVN2
If you want some plugins to be excluded, for example those found in dependency list, create a second file with excluded list (ie, xplugins):
ant
antisamy-markup-formatter
credentials
cvs
external-monitor-job
javadoc
ldap
mailer
matrix-auth
maven-plugin
pam-auth
ssh-credentials
ssh-slaves
subversion
translation
windows-slaves
Then get script :
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hgomez/devops-incubator/master/forge-tricks/batch-install-jenkins-plugins.sh -o batch-install-jenkins-plugins.sh
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--plugins (or -p) is for file containing plugins to be installed
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--excludedplugins (or -e) is for file containing plugins to be excluded
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--plugindir (or -p) is for directory path to copy plugins (.jpi)
batch-install-jenkins-plugins.sh --plugins iplugins --excludedplugins xplugins --plugindir /var/lib/myjenkins/plugins
batch-install-jenkins-plugins.sh will download json file containing up to date plugins and will download plugins to be installed and non optional dependent plugins
Of course, better run this script when Jenkins is down to avoid runtime issue.
Script powo !