General Properties

Here are some general properties that can be set to configure the behaviour of pipelines using this shared library.

NOOP

If true, a dry run of the pipeline will be performed with every task being skipped

Default: false

BUILD_RETRIES

Sometimes builds fail because of network or file system glitches, but will complete on rebuild. Use this to set a maximum number of retries before giving up.

Default: 1

BUILD_TIMEOUT

Maximum amount of time in minutes a build can take before it will be forcefully terminated. If default pipeline is not used then this has to be applied around the pipeline definition manually.

Default: 360

DEFAULT_BUILD_PROPERTIES

Default path to look for an external configuration that overrides the default one.

JOB_ITEM_DEFAULTS

Default values to used to use for non specified configurations on job items. Example:

JOB_ITEM_DEFAULTS:
  scmBranch: master
  buildFramework: MAVEN
  directives: clean install
  testable: true

SCM_CREDENTIALS_ID

This is the Jenkins credentials ID that is used for interacting with git.

JENKINS_JDK_FOR_BUILDS

Jenkins tool ID for Java’s JDK.