jenkins_job_facts - Get facts about Jenkins jobs¶

New in version 2.5.

Synopsis
- Requirements
Parameters
Examples
Return Values
Status
Maintenance
- Author

Synopsis ¶

This module can be used to query the facts about which Jenkins jobs which already exists.

Requirements ¶

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

python-jenkins >= 0.4.12

Parameters ¶

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	Comments
color		Only fetch jobs with the given status color.
glob		A shell glob of Jenkins job names to fetch facts about.
name		Exact name of the Jenkins job to fetch facts about.
password		Password to authenticate with the Jenkins server. This is a required parameter, if `token` is not provided.
token		API token used to authenticate with the Jenkins server. This is a required parameter, if `password` is not provided.
url	Default: "http://localhost:8080"	URL where the Jenkins server is accessible.
user		User to authenticate with the Jenkins server.
validate_certs bool (added in 2.6)	Choices: no yes ←	If set to `False`, the SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only set to `False` used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

Examples ¶

# Get all Jenkins jobs using basic auth
- jenkins_job_facts:
    user: admin
    password: hunter2
  register: my_jenkins_job_facts

# Get all Jenkins jobs using the token
- jenkins_job_facts:
    user: admin
    token: abcdefghijklmnop
  register: my_jenkins_job_facts

# Get facts about a single job using basic auth
- jenkins_job_facts:
    name: some-job-name
    user: admin
    password: hunter2
  register: my_jenkins_job_facts

# Get facts about a single job in a folder using basic auth
- jenkins_job_facts:
    name: some-folder-name/some-job-name
    user: admin
    password: hunter2
  register: my_jenkins_job_facts

# Get facts about jobs matching a shell glob using basic auth
- jenkins_job_facts:
    glob: some-job-*
    user: admin
    password: hunter2
  register: my_jenkins_job_facts

# Get facts about all failing jobs using basic auth
- jenkins_job_facts:
    color: red
    user: admin
    password: hunter2
  register: my_jenkins_job_facts

# Get facts about passing jobs matching a shell glob using basic auth
- jenkins_job_facts:
    name: some-job-*
    color: blue
    user: admin
    password: hunter2
  register: my_jenkins_job_facts

- name: Get the facts from custom URL with token and validate_certs=False
  jenkins_job_facts:
    user: admin
    token: 126df5c60d66c66e3b75b11104a16a8a
    url: https://jenkins.example.com
    validate_certs: False
  register: my_jenkins_job_facts

Return Values ¶

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key	Returned	Description
jobs list	success	All jobs found matching the specified criteria Sample: [{'name': 'test-job', 'fullname': 'test-folder/test-job', 'url': 'http://localhost:8080/job/test-job/', 'color': 'blue'}]

Status ¶

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Maintenance ¶

This module is flagged as community which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Community. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.

For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Community, see here.

Author ¶

Chris St. Pierre (@stpierre)

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