Create Jenkins jobs from a Git directory with job DSL files

Question

I have a folder in a GitHub project which contains a bunch of groovy files, each containing the DSL for one job eg: jenkins-as-code/tree/master/jobs contains samplejob1.groovy, samplejob2.groovy, etc.

How would I configure a seed job in Jenkins that would get this list of groovy files from Git and create a job for each one of them.

Answer 1

Solution

In the seed job configuration screen:

1. Clone the git project into workspace in the Source Code Management section.
2. Add a Process Job DSLs build step, select the Look on Filesystem option and enter jobs/ .groovy* in the DSL Scripts field.