Azure DevOps - Integrate Jenkins with Azure Repos
Jenkins is a CI/CD Pipeline tool.
Jenkins Installation on Ubuntu
The below steps are used to integrate Azure Repos with Jenkins.(Below example is java maven based project)
Once Jenkins is installed and the service is running then you can access the Jenkins on port number 8080.
Install maven on the ubuntu machine apt install maven command.
Create a sample maven project using mvn archetype:generate command. Provide the options as default options except below two values.
groupid: com.java
artifactid: myproj
Create a Repo in the Azure DevOps portal and push the myproj into the repo
- cd myproj
- git init
- git add .
- git commit -m “Initial setup”
- git remote add origin <URL of AzureRepo>
- git push origin master
Check on the Azure Repos MyProj repo should be created.
Click on Clone Repo and copy the URL. Generate a username and password and use these credentials in the Jenkins job.
Goto Jenkins portal and Select Manage Jenkins –> Manage plugins
In the Available Tab select Maven Integration and click on Install without restart Jenkins button.
Create a new job in Jenkins with Maven Project
In the configuration Map Git URL as Azure Repo url and the add credentials as created for Azure repos.
In the Goals and options write the command clean package
Generate a token in Jenkins to integrate with Azure Repos. On Jenkins select People–>admin user–>Configure–>API Token–>Generate Token
Save the token because this token is only visible during creation time only
On Azure DevOps, Goto Project Settings –> Service hooks–>New Subscription –>Jenkins—> Add Trigger
Type of Event Code Pushed and select your repository.
Now change the code in the Azure Repo and You will find that the Jenkins job is triggered.
