Martin,
We use the Templates plugin to simplify the job creation interface and
standardize common job types. Combined with the folder plugin, we can
restrict what can be created within a folder, making it even simpler for
end users. The xml transformation isn't bad since you can just create a job
with substitution tokens (${FOO}) and load it in from the interface.
Changes to a template are automatically propagated to its jobs as well.
You can also easily convert an existing job to use templates job.
I think it's better than the other options you listed.
Having said that, we have thousands of jobs and multiple Jenkins masters so
this plugin doesn't work that well for our scenario. I think the general
direction of keeping the job configuration in SCM (using combination of the
workflow and Job DSL plugin) is more scalable and it's something we are
investigating.
On Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 12:53:36 PM UTC-7, Martin B. wrote:
>
> Hello users.
>
> I'm looking for independent opinions on the Jenkins Enterprise Templates
> Plugin.
>
> It would be one of the main reasons for us to adopt Jenkins Enterprise,
> but I was quite shocked to learn (see
>
> http://documentation.cloudbees.com/docs/cje-user-guide/temolate-sect-job-template-tutorial.html)
>
>
> that you actually have to do raw XML transformation to get a simple job
> template running. Looks rather bare bones to me. ('course I *can* see
> where this might be useful with very complicated job templates, but I
> like to keep the simple stuff simple, and telling people to write jelly
> transformations isn't my idea of simple)
>
> Anyway - are you using JE Templates Plugin? Great Stuff? Much better
> than (https://github.com/JoelJ/ez-templates) or
> (https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Template+Project+Plugin) ...
> ?
>
> cheers,
> Martin
>
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Jenkins Users" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/6a363e9f-ed64-4be8-a4a9-7dc68591c6d6%40googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
