Jenkins CI recommended plugins

Similar to the post about Eclipse’s plugins, now I would like to share my recommendation about Hudson’s plugins (the most simple ones) .

 

(Why Hudson renamed to Jenkins : see at either InfoQ or The Register)

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Build wrappers

Build-timeout is simple but neccessary:

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Build-timeout+Plugin

Mask password on console:

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Mask+Passwords+Plugin

If running on Linux/Unix server, this one can provide a lightweight X server:

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Xvnc+Plugin

SSH connection is also popular in the *nix world:

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/SSH+plugin

 

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Build notifiers

An extension of the built-in email feature is enough:

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Email-ext+plugin

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Source code version control

Subversion (built-in), Git, Mercurial are all good. If you have already have a ViewVC installation, use ViewVC plugin:

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/ViewVC+Plugin

 

If you want to keep the change log of recent builds, but also want to save space by discarding old builds:

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Change+Log+History+Plugin

 

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Build triggers

The inbuilt triggers are enough, I think. There are downstream/upstream, shell scripts, env vars, … Maybe sometimes you may need this one:

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Parameterized+Trigger+Plugin

Another useful plugin for locking some jobs while building one:

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Locks+and+Latches+plugin

 

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Build tools

Well, for Java geeks there are Ant and Maven plugins. There are also others like Gant, Gradle, Rake, Python, PowerShell plugins… but there is also a small plugin which can be useful at times:

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Batch+Task+Plugin

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Build reports

Well, the well-known static analysis tools like Cobertura, PMD/Checkstyle/FireBugs plugins . There is one for TestNG too :
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/testng-plugin

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External site/tool integrations

To name a few: Redmine, Trac, JIRA, Bugzilla, Mantis, Sonar
, Firefox, Android, GitHub, GoogleCode… Hmmm, just pick what you are using, don’t try to get it all cuz it’s time to K.I.S.S !

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UI plugins

Some are quite fun: Green Balls, Chuck Noris, Girls. The Description Setter is useful to quickly extract infor (version, etc…) and display them in the build description:

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Description+Setter+Plugin

 

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That’s enough, I think. Not too much, huh ? Well, after 2 years using Hudson I find myself never use more than 10 plugins at once (for 20 build-jobs or so) . Depending on the requirements, one can install more plugins to achieve it, not the other way around IMHO.

 

There are more… You may want to try ’em out yourself !

 

 

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