Visualize Jenkins pipeline or multibranch pipeline jobs

Question

• I have one Pipeline job for each component in my Jenkins 2.0. All of them consist of many stages (build, UT, IT etc.), so they're working as a pipeline for a component.
• The components are depending on each other in a specified order, so I used "Build after other projects are built" (I also tried JobFanIn Plugin ) to trigger these "mini-pipelines" after each other. This works like a pipeline of "mini pipelines"

I'd like to visualize the relationship between the jobs. For this purpose I've found 2 plugins:

• Delivery Pipeline Plugin
• Build Pipeline Plugin

Both introduce a new View type, but none of them supports the "Pipeline" or "Multibranch pipeline" job types ( introduced in Jenkins 2.0 ), these jobs are not visible in the related dropdown list on the view config page.

How can I visualize the relation of these job types? Is there any other plugin which supports these types?

Answer 1

Thinking about this.

I don't think a visualisation of multi branch pipelines makes sense in the same way it would for a single branch build. The reason is that each bench of a mb pipeline can have a different build configuration. Eg with master triggering a promotion job but branch doing something else or nothing.

Do the best one could do I think is trace an individual build number and it's links. Can't do it at the job level.

Answer 2

Jenkins blue ocean plugins give the rich view to visualize all types (parallel, sequential stages) view out of the box.

Let say if you have a pipeline like this

pipeline {
    agent any;
    stages {
        stage('build') {
            stages {
                stage('compile') {
                    steps {
                        echo "steps for unitest"
                    }
                }
                stage('security scan') {
                    parallel {
                        stage('sonarqube') {
                            steps {
                                echo "steps for parallel sonarqube"
                            }
                        }
                        stage('blackduck') {
                            steps {
                                echo "steps for parallel blackduck"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
                stage('package') {
                    steps {
                        echo "steps for package"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        stage('deployment') {
            stages {
                stage('dev') {
                    steps {
                        echo "Development"
                    }
                }
                stage('pp') {
                    when { branch 'master' }
                    steps {
                        echo "PreProduction"
                    }
                }
                stage('prod') {
                    when { 
                        branch 'master' 
                        beforeInput true
                    }
                    input {
                        message "Deploy to production?"
                        id "simple-input"
                    }
                    steps {
                        echo "Production"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

It will visualize like this :

is this what you are looking for? Note- it can customize. but this view is per build ..you can't create a dashboard from it and combine it all in one