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environment variable substitution for config files in /usr/share/jenkins/ref/ #448

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jpraet opened this issue Mar 10, 2017 · 3 comments

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@jpraet
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jpraet commented Mar 10, 2017

It would be nice if environment variables (or another placeholder replacement mechanism) could be used for the config files in /usr/share/jenkins/ref/. For example:

hudson.tasks.Mailer.xml:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<hudson.tasks.Mailer_-DescriptorImpl plugin="[email protected]">
  <hudsonUrl>http://jenkins.example.com/</hudsonUrl>
  <smtpHost>smtp.example.com</smtpHost>
  <useSsl>false</useSsl>
  <charset>UTF-8</charset>
</hudson.tasks.Mailer_-DescriptorImpl>

jenkins.model.JenkinsLocationConfiguration.xml:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<jenkins.model.JenkinsLocationConfiguration>
  <adminAddress>[email protected]</adminAddress>
  <jenkinsUrl>http://jenkins.example.com/</jenkinsUrl>
</jenkins.model.JenkinsLocationConfiguration>

I would like to provide these default configuration files in /usr/share/jenkins/ref/, but the http://jenkins.example.com/ should be specified dynamically when running the container (e.g. for another instance in a test environment).

So I'd like to be able to write something like
<jenkinsUrl>${JENKINS_URL}</jenkinsUrl>
or maybe with a default value
<jenkinsUrl>${JENKINS_URL-http://jenkins.example.com/}</jenkinsUrl>

and then specify a value at runtime with
docker run -e "JENKINS_URL=http://jenkins-test.example.com/"

What do you think?

@hoshsadiq
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Alternatively you can using groovy.init.d to configure Jenkins. From here you are able to access environment variables using System.getenv("VARIABLE_NAME"), in your case: System.getenv("JENKINS_URL")

@PriyankaSuchak
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I have similar requirement, basically I want jenkins container configuration to be different for different Kuberentes project . example: jenkins/sonarqube for one Kuberentes namespace will be having different names vs second namespace (jenkins/sonarqube). However I want to build standard image where based on environment variable I can update hudson.plugins.sonar.SonarGlobalConfiguration.xml
for $SONAR_URL and $TOKEN

if this can be achieved by groovy option, could you explain little more on how to use goovy.init.d

Regards
Priyanka

@ibaldonl
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ibaldonl commented Jun 5, 2019

I think this is not specific to the container but a more generally useful suggestion.
Some people asked for a similar thing here:
https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-28466?focusedCommentId=283101&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#comment-283101

MarkEWaite added a commit to MarkEWaite/docker that referenced this issue Jun 28, 2022
https://github.com/jenkinsci/plugin-installation-manager-tool/releases/tag/2.12.7
new features:

* Support output format for list option (jenkinsci#448) @cronik

Also includes dependency updates

* Use plugin installation manager tool 2.12.7.
  Can generate a plugins.txt from the contents of a plugins directory.
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