00mjk / jenkins-job_config_analyzer

Utility job for analyzing the configuration of other freestyle jobs

Jenkins-JOB_CONFIG_ANALYZER

A Jenkins utility job for analyzing and reporting the configuration of other freestyle jobs/projects

Motivation

The configuration complexity of Jenkins freestyle jobs has increased, especially as we are now introducing dynamic parameter behavior (using the Active Choices and other similar Jenkins plugins). There is a need for a quick and concise way to review and access project parameters, builders, publishers, and Groovy code and plugin dependencies.

What can JOB_CONFIG_ANALYZER do?

This utility Jenkins job allows you to select one of the jobs on your Jenkins server, analyze its configuration, and create a concise report of the job's main elements (parameters, scm, builders, publishers, build-wrappers) as well as the Groovy code, scripts and plugin dependencies.

By examining a JOB_CONFIG_ANALYZER build report you can immediately visualize and access the target project's:

1. parameters
2. SCM
3. builders
4. publishers
5. scriptlets, and Groovy code used
6. plugins used
7. order and sequence of these components

In addition, longitudinal builds of a project can be used as an annotated log/archive of the job's configuration changes. Since the configuration file of the analyzed project/job is archived, it can be used to compare or even revert back to a particular configuration version by simply re-deploying it to the project folder on the server.

There is a lot more ....

Please see the documentation provided with Jenkins-JobConfigurationAnalyzer at: https://github.com/imoutsatsos/Jenkins-JobConfigurationAnalyzer

Also, please pay attention to some of the listed limitations!