What is the difference between running maven goals from console and from jenkins

Question

What is the difference between executing build with mvn clean install and running jenkins job with maven goal clean install ?

I'm running:

mvn sonar:sonar -Dsonar.jacoco.itReportPath=target/jacoco-integration.exec

and it works as expected but adding following maven goal to jenkins works differently.

sonar:sonar -Dsonar.jacoco.itReportPath=target/jacoco-integration.exec

I figured out, that jenkins executes builds as jenkins user, but is that all?

Answer 1

To answer your question directly:

• Jenkins executes using jenkins user (or whatever you configured).
• Jenkins spawns everything in it's own process space, and changes to that process's environment are not persisted.
• Jenkins makes sure that no processes are left running after the job execution completes.