What properties are in Jenkins / Hudson available for build configuration? - build

The question is in the title
I know about BUILD_NAME and BUILD_ID and BUILD_TAG and I have seen somewhere a list of properties, but I can't find it anymore.

There is
a quite extensive list in the JENKINS wiki (or if you prefer in the Hudson Wiki,
there is a link to it below the textarea where you specify your build steps (see below)
you could run env as bash script in a build step to find out which additional variables are inherited on your system:

To view available env vars in your case (since they also depend on installed plugins) just go to this URL:
https://<your-jenkins>/env-vars.html
Replace https://<your-jenkins>/ with how you used to access your Jenkins (it can be, just for instance
http://localhost:8080/env-vars.html
or
https://linux-jenkins-1:8443/env-vars.html).

Updating the link to Jenkins WIKI:
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Building+a+software+project#Buildingasoftwareproject-below
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Building+a+software+project#Buildingasoftwareproject-JenkinsSetEnvironmentVariables

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Methods to automate ColdFusion Administrator settings

When working with a ColdFusion server you can access the CFIDE/administrator to set config values, which update the cfusion/lib/ xml files (e.g. neo-runtime.xml, neo-mail.xml, etc.)
I'd like to automate a deployment process that includes setting these administrator values so that I don't have to log in and manually set them for each new box that shares settings. I'm unsure of the best way to go about it.
Some thoughts I had are:
Replacing the full files with ones containing my custom settings. I've done this for local development, but it may not be an ideal method due to CF hot-fixes potentially adding/removing/changing attributes.
A script to read the wddx xml file and replace the attribute values. I'm having trouble finding information about how to do this method.
Has anyone done anything like this before? Or does anyone have any recommendations on how to best go about this?
At one company, we checked all the neo-*.xml files into source control, with a set for each environment Devs only had access to the dev settings and we could deploy a local development environment with all the correct settings for new employees quickly.
but it may not be an ideal method due to CF hot-fixes potentially adding/removing/changing attributes.
You have to keep up with those changes and migrate each environment appropriately.
While I was there, we upgraded from 8 to 9, 9 to 11 and from 11 to 2016. Environments would have to be mixed as it took time to verify the applications worked with each new version of CF. Each server got their correct XML files for that environment and scripts would copy updates as needed. We had something like 55 servers in production running 8 instances each, so this scaled well.
There is a very usefull tool developed by Ortus Solutions for this kind of automatizations called cfconfig that can be installed with their commandbox command line utility. This tool isn't only capable of setting configurations of the administrator: It is also capable of exporting/importing settings to a json file (cfconfig.json). It might be what you need.
Here is the link to their docs
https://cfconfig.ortusbooks.com/introduction/getting-started-guide
CFConfig worked perfectly for my needs. I marked #AndreasRu answer as accepted for introducing me to that tool! I'm just adding this response with some additional detail for posterity.
Install CommandBox as part of deployment script
Install CFConfig as part of deployment script
Use CFConfig to export a config.json file from an existing box that will share settings with the new deployment. Store this json file in source control for each type/env of box.
Use CFConfig to import the config.json as part of deployment script
Here's a simple example of what this looks like on debian
# Installs CommandBox
curl -fsSl https://downloads.ortussolutions.com/debs/gpg | apt-key add -
echo "deb https://downloads.ortussolutions.com/debs/noarch /" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/commandbox.list
apt-get update && apt-get install apt-transport-https commandbox
# Installs CFConfig module
box install commandbox-cfconfig
# Import config settings
box cfconfig import from=/<path-to-config>/config.json to=/opt/ColdFusion/cfusion/ toFormat=adobe#11.0.19

Google Container Registry build trigger on folder change

I can setup a build trigger on GCR to build my Docker image every time my Git repository gets updated. However, I have a single repository with multiple folders, and a Docker file in each folder.
Ex:
my_app
-- service-1
Dockerfile-1
-- service-2
Dockerfile-2
How do I only build Dockerfile-1 when the service-1 folder gets updated?
This is a variation on this GitHub feature request -- in your case, differential behavior based on the changed files (folders) rather than the branch.
We are considering this feature as part of the development of support for more advanced workflow control and will post back on that GitHub issue when it becomes available.
The work-around available to you today is to use a bash script that conditionally builds (or doesn't) based on an inspection of the files changed in the $COMMIT_SHA that triggered the build. Note that the git builder can be used to get the list of files changed via git diff-tree --no-commit-id --name-only -r $COMMIT_SHA.

How to install hexo blog in a remote repo to local machine?

I'm using hexo in github page. Mistakingly I deleted my local file in my local machine. I tried to make a new local file again by using git clonehttps://github.com/aaayumi/aaayumi.github.io.git. Then I installed npm install hexo-cli -g.
I could install all necessary files but when I typed hexo deploy,
it shows,
hexo deploy
Usage: hexo <command>
Commands:
help Get help on a command.
init Create a new Hexo folder.
version Display version information.
Global Options:
--config Specify config file instead of using _config.yml
--cwd Specify the CWD
--debug Display all verbose messages in the terminal
--draft Display draft posts
--safe Disable all plugins and scripts
--silent Hide output on console
For more help, you can use 'hexo help [command]' for the detailed information
or you can check the docs: http://hexo.io/docs/
Is there an way to be able to use hexo blog locally?
The code in https://github.com/aaayumi/aaayumi.github.io is not the source code of your blog, it is just the generated content. What you need are the original markdown files that were inside your source folder.
You will have to recreate the blog with hexo init and rewrite your blog posts .. Sorry for that.
Of course you can look at your website directly (http://ayumi-saito.com/) and rewrite the posts, copy pasting from there which should not take that long.
Also to make sure this does not happen again, you can publish your blog source files in a different repository. So that there is always a copy somewhere.
PS: Thanks for using my theme ;)

How to delete an archived artifact in jenkins?

I am using Jenkins with tomcat. I use jenkins cli from java class to create job and to build. I want to delete a archived artifact. How to accomplish this?
Another question is, can we give a specific name to the build in jenkins (e.g) i want the build name like (buildNumber + someName). How to achieve this?
The artifacts for a build by default are located in: [JENKINS_HOME]/jobs/[job_name]/builds/[$BUILD_ID]/archive/, go there and delete it. It won't delete the link to the artifact from the build page, though. (If you are not sure where your JENKINS_HOME is, go to http://[jenkins_server]/configure, you'll see Home directory near the top of the page).
To change the display name of a build automatically try Build Name Setter Plugin.
To change the display name via CLI:
java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s http://[server]/ set-build-display-name [job_name] [build#] [new_name]

Building project from cron task

When I build project from terminal by using 'xcodebuild' command I succeed, but when I try to do run same script from cron task I receive error
"Code Sign error: The identity '****' doesn't match any valid certificate/private key pair in the default keychain"
I think problem is in settings and permissions of crontab utility, it seems crontab does not see my keychain
Can anyone provide me terminal command how to make my keychain visible for crontab
I encountered a similar issue with trying to build nightly via cron. The only resolution I found was to create a plist in /Library/LaunchDaemons/ and load it via launchctl. The key necessary is "SessionCreate" otherwise you will quickly run in to problems similar to what was encountered with trying to use cron -- namely that your user login.keychain is not available to the process. "SessionCreate" is similar to "su -l" in that (as far as I understand) it simulates a login and thus default keychains you expect will be available; otherwise, you are stuck with only the System keychain despite the task running as your user.
I found the answers (though not the top answer currently) here useful in troublw shooting this issue: Missing certificates and keys in the keychain while using Jenkins/Hudson as Continuous Integration for iOS and Mac development
You execute your cron job with which account ?
most probably the problem !!
You can add
echo `whoami`
at the beginning of your script to see with which user the script is launched.
Also when a Bash script is launched from cron, it don't use the same environment variable (non login shell) as when you launch it as a user.
When the script launches from cron, it doesn't load your $HOME/.profile (or .bash_profile). Anything you run from cron has to be 100% self-sufficient in terms of it's environment. I'd suggest you make yourself a file called something like "set_build_env.sh" It should contain everything from your .profile that you need to build, such as $PATH, $HOME, $CLASSPATH etc. Then in your build script, load set_build_env.sh using the dot notation or source cmd as ericc said. You should also remove the build-specific lines from your.profile and then source set_build_env from there too so only one place to maintain. Example:
source /home/dmitry/set_build_env.sh #absolute path
. /home/dmitry/set_build_env.sh #dot-space notation same as "source"