jenkins_job_info – Get information about Jenkins jobs

New in version 2.5.

Synopsis

• This module can be used to query information about which Jenkins jobs which already exists.

• This module was called jenkins_job_info before Ansible 2.9. The usage did not change.

Aliases: jenkins_job_facts

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 information about.
name -		Exact name of the Jenkins job to fetch information 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 boolean 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_info:
    user: admin
    password: hunter2
  register: my_jenkins_job_info

# Get all Jenkins jobs using the token
- jenkins_job_info:
    user: admin
    token: abcdefghijklmnop
  register: my_jenkins_job_info

# Get info about a single job using basic auth
- jenkins_job_info:
    name: some-job-name
    user: admin
    password: hunter2
  register: my_jenkins_job_info

# Get info about a single job in a folder using basic auth
- jenkins_job_info:
    name: some-folder-name/some-job-name
    user: admin
    password: hunter2
  register: my_jenkins_job_info

# Get info about jobs matching a shell glob using basic auth
- jenkins_job_info:
    glob: some-job-*
    user: admin
    password: hunter2
  register: my_jenkins_job_info

# Get info about all failing jobs using basic auth
- jenkins_job_info:
    color: red
    user: admin
    password: hunter2
  register: my_jenkins_job_info

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

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

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 not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface. [preview]

• This module is maintained by the Ansible Community. [community]

Authors

• Chris St. Pierre (@stpierre)

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