community.general.jenkins_plugin – Add or remove Jenkins plugin
Note
This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).
You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible
package. It is not included in ansible-core
. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list
.
To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general
.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.jenkins_plugin
.
Synopsis
- Ansible module which helps to manage Jenkins plugins.
Parameters
Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments |
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attributes string added in 2.3 of ansible.builtin | The attributes the resulting file or directory should have. To get supported flags look at the man page for chattr on the target system. This string should contain the attributes in the same order as the one displayed by lsattr. The = operator is assumed as default, otherwise + or - operators need to be included in the string.aliases: attr | |
client_cert path | PEM formatted certificate chain file to be used for SSL client authentication. This file can also include the key as well, and if the key is included, client_key is not required. | |
client_key path | PEM formatted file that contains your private key to be used for SSL client authentication. If client_cert contains both the certificate and key, this option is not required. | |
force boolean |
| If yes do not get a cached copy.Alias thirsty has been deprecated and will be removed in 2.13.aliases: thirsty |
force_basic_auth boolean |
| Credentials specified with url_username and url_password should be passed in HTTP Header. |
group string | Default: "jenkins" | Name of the Jenkins group on the OS. |
http_agent string | Default: "ansible-httpget" | Header to identify as, generally appears in web server logs. |
jenkins_home path | Default: "/var/lib/jenkins" | Home directory of the Jenkins user. |
latest_plugins_url_segments list / elements=string added in 3.3.0 of community.general | Default: ["latest"] | Path inside the updates_url to get latest plugins from. |
mode raw | Default: "0644" | File mode applied on versioned plugins. |
name string / required | Plugin name. | |
owner string | Default: "jenkins" | Name of the Jenkins user on the OS. |
selevel string | The level part of the SELinux file context. This is the MLS/MCS attribute, sometimes known as the range .When set to _default , it will use the level portion of the policy if available. | |
serole string | The role part of the SELinux file context. When set to _default , it will use the role portion of the policy if available. | |
setype string | The type part of the SELinux file context. When set to _default , it will use the type portion of the policy if available. | |
seuser string | The user part of the SELinux file context. By default it uses the system policy, where applicable.When set to _default , it will use the user portion of the policy if available. | |
state string |
| Desired plugin state. If the latest is set, the check for new version will be performed every time. This is suitable to keep the plugin up-to-date. |
timeout integer | Default: 30 | Server connection timeout in secs. |
unsafe_writes boolean added in 2.2 of ansible.builtin |
| Influence when to use atomic operation to prevent data corruption or inconsistent reads from the target file. By default this module uses atomic operations to prevent data corruption or inconsistent reads from the target files, but sometimes systems are configured or just broken in ways that prevent this. One example is docker mounted files, which cannot be updated atomically from inside the container and can only be written in an unsafe manner. This option allows Ansible to fall back to unsafe methods of updating files when atomic operations fail (however, it doesn't force Ansible to perform unsafe writes). IMPORTANT! Unsafe writes are subject to race conditions and can lead to data corruption. |
update_json_url_segment list / elements=string added in 3.3.0 of community.general | Default: ["update-center.json", "updates/update-center.json"] | A list of URL segment(s) to retrieve the update center json file from. |
updates_expiration integer | Default: 86400 | Number of seconds after which a new copy of the update-center.json file is downloaded. This is used to avoid the need to download the plugin to calculate its checksum when latest is specified.Set it to 0 if no cache file should be used. In that case, the plugin file will always be downloaded to calculate its checksum when latest is specified. |
updates_url list / elements=string | Default: ["https://updates.jenkins.io", "http://mirrors.jenkins.io"] | A list of base URL(s) to retrieve update-center.json, and direct plugin files from. This can be a list since community.general 3.3.0. |
url string | Default: "http://localhost:8080" | URL of the Jenkins server. |
url_password string | The password for use in HTTP basic authentication. If the url_username parameter is not specified, the url_password parameter will not be used. | |
url_username string | The username for use in HTTP basic authentication. This parameter can be used without url_password for sites that allow empty passwords | |
use_gssapi boolean added in 2.11 of ansible.builtin |
| Use GSSAPI to perform the authentication, typically this is for Kerberos or Kerberos through Negotiate authentication. Requires the Python library gssapi to be installed. Credentials for GSSAPI can be specified with url_username/url_password or with the GSSAPI env var KRB5CCNAME that specified a custom Kerberos credential cache.NTLM authentication is not supported even if the GSSAPI mech for NTLM has been installed. |
use_proxy boolean |
| If no , it will not use a proxy, even if one is defined in an environment variable on the target hosts. |
validate_certs boolean |
| If no , SSL certificates will not be validated.This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates. |
version string | Plugin version number. If this option is specified, all plugin dependencies must be installed manually. It might take longer to verify that the correct version is installed. This is especially true if a specific version number is specified. Quote the version to prevent the value to be interpreted as float. For example if 1.20 would be unquoted, it would become 1.2 . | |
versioned_plugins_url_segments list / elements=string added in 3.3.0 of community.general | Default: ["download/plugins", "plugins"] | Path inside the updates_url to get specific version of plugins from. |
with_dependencies boolean |
| Defines whether to install plugin dependencies. This option takes effect only if the version is not defined. |
Notes
Note
- Plugin installation should be run under root or the same user which owns the plugin files on the disk. Only if the plugin is not installed yet and no version is specified, the API installation is performed which requires only the Web UI credentials.
- It’s necessary to notify the handler or call the service module to restart the Jenkins service after a new plugin was installed.
- Pinning works only if the plugin is installed and Jenkins service was successfully restarted after the plugin installation.
- It is not possible to run the module remotely by changing the url parameter to point to the Jenkins server. The module must be used on the host where Jenkins runs as it needs direct access to the plugin files.
Examples
- name: Install plugin community.general.jenkins_plugin: name: build-pipeline-plugin - name: Install plugin without its dependencies community.general.jenkins_plugin: name: build-pipeline-plugin with_dependencies: no - name: Make sure the plugin is always up-to-date community.general.jenkins_plugin: name: token-macro state: latest - name: Install specific version of the plugin community.general.jenkins_plugin: name: token-macro version: "1.15" - name: Pin the plugin community.general.jenkins_plugin: name: token-macro state: pinned - name: Unpin the plugin community.general.jenkins_plugin: name: token-macro state: unpinned - name: Enable the plugin community.general.jenkins_plugin: name: token-macro state: enabled - name: Disable the plugin community.general.jenkins_plugin: name: token-macro state: disabled - name: Uninstall plugin community.general.jenkins_plugin: name: build-pipeline-plugin state: absent # # Example of how to authenticate # - name: Install plugin community.general.jenkins_plugin: name: build-pipeline-plugin url_username: admin url_password: p4ssw0rd url: http://localhost:8888 # # Example of a Play which handles Jenkins restarts during the state changes # - name: Jenkins Master play hosts: jenkins-master vars: my_jenkins_plugins: token-macro: enabled: yes build-pipeline-plugin: version: "1.4.9" pinned: no enabled: yes tasks: - name: Install plugins without a specific version community.general.jenkins_plugin: name: "{{ item.key }}" register: my_jenkins_plugin_unversioned when: > 'version' not in item.value with_dict: "{{ my_jenkins_plugins }}" - name: Install plugins with a specific version community.general.jenkins_plugin: name: "{{ item.key }}" version: "{{ item.value['version'] }}" register: my_jenkins_plugin_versioned when: > 'version' in item.value with_dict: "{{ my_jenkins_plugins }}" - name: Initiate the fact ansible.builtin.set_fact: jenkins_restart_required: no - name: Check if restart is required by any of the versioned plugins ansible.builtin.set_fact: jenkins_restart_required: yes when: item.changed with_items: "{{ my_jenkins_plugin_versioned.results }}" - name: Check if restart is required by any of the unversioned plugins ansible.builtin.set_fact: jenkins_restart_required: yes when: item.changed with_items: "{{ my_jenkins_plugin_unversioned.results }}" - name: Restart Jenkins if required ansible.builtin.service: name: jenkins state: restarted when: jenkins_restart_required - name: Wait for Jenkins to start up ansible.builtin.uri: url: http://localhost:8080 status_code: 200 timeout: 5 register: jenkins_service_status # Keep trying for 5 mins in 5 sec intervals retries: 60 delay: 5 until: > 'status' in jenkins_service_status and jenkins_service_status['status'] == 200 when: jenkins_restart_required - name: Reset the fact ansible.builtin.set_fact: jenkins_restart_required: no when: jenkins_restart_required - name: Plugin pinning community.general.jenkins_plugin: name: "{{ item.key }}" state: "{{ 'pinned' if item.value['pinned'] else 'unpinned'}}" when: > 'pinned' in item.value with_dict: "{{ my_jenkins_plugins }}" - name: Plugin enabling community.general.jenkins_plugin: name: "{{ item.key }}" state: "{{ 'enabled' if item.value['enabled'] else 'disabled'}}" when: > 'enabled' in item.value with_dict: "{{ my_jenkins_plugins }}"
Return Values
Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:
Key | Returned | Description |
---|---|---|
plugin string | success | plugin name Sample: build-pipeline-plugin |
state string | success | state of the target, after execution Sample: present |
Authors
- Jiri Tyr (@jtyr)
© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/jenkins_plugin_module.html