How to label to restrict build to slave nodes to use by using parameterized build

Question

For my Jenkins job, I have setup an environment parameter which tells my build script which configuration to use. I also have slave nodes running on each of my environments to build and deploy my application.

I have tried used the "Restrict where this project can be run" with the value

buildnode-${ENV}

where ENV is the name of my parameter. This doesn't seem to work as label does not perform substitution.

I have also tried the NodeLabel Plugin, which allows me to define which nodes to run the job from. However, this will create two separate selections:

Is there a way to tie this two together, so when I select QA environment, for example, the slave node for the QA server is choose to run the build?

Solution

You can try the following work-around: have two builds - A and B. A will set up the environment, save it into a file, and pass the file as a parameter to build B, along with the name of the node on which to run (the parameters will be passed via Parameterized Trigger plugin). B will read the environment (via EnvInject plugin) and run the build on the node passed as the other parameter (you do need to use NodeLabel plugin).

Comments

[ltfishie]

Thanks I will give that a try. Or maybe I should just learn how to develop a Jenkins plugin and do it myself....

[Montells]

michael-prokop.at/blog/2014/03/01/… this guy have same problem with elegant solution