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Jenkins Update Site

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The BioUno Jenkins update site is offline. You can rebuild it locally, or install plug-ins manually.

The plug-ins developed for BioUno are too niche-specific and thus aren’t released to Jenkins update center. In order to install the plug-ins you have to add our update center.

Install UpdateSites Manager plugin

The first step is install the UpdateSites Manager plugin. You don’t need to restart Jenkins after you have installed this plug-in.

Add BioUno Update Center

There will be a new entry in your configuration screen, to Manage UpdateSites. There you will find the option to add a new update site. Fill the form with the following values:

PropertyValue
Disable this siteUncheck
IDbiouno-update-center
URLhttps://biouno.org/jenkins-update-center/update-center.json
NoteBioUno Jenkins update center
Need CA CertificateCheck
CA Certificate
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----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-----END CERTIFICATE-----

In newer versions of Jenkins you have to add certificates used by third party update centers manually. Download our certificate or execute wget http://biouno.org/jenkins-update-center/biouno-update-center.crt, and copy the certificate to $JENKINS_ROOT/update-center-rootCAs/. This directory will be located in your Jenkins root directory (likely the WEB-INF directory in your Web container or Jenkins root directory in most servers).

Now go back to “Manage Jenkins” > “Plugins” > “Advanced” and click “Check now”. That will sync the plug-ins, and you will be able to install any plug-in available in our update center.

Generating update center

When generating the update center, there are two repositories to clone.

The jenkins-update-center project contains the update center HTML and JSON files. This is server as GitHub Pages, from the gh-pages branch. When our certificate expires, using the original key we can generate a new certificate with a new expiration date. Then put the .crt file in the jenkins-update-center root directory.

The backend-update-center2 is used to update the JSON and HTML files, with a command such as.

mvn -X -e exec:java -Dexec.args="-id biouno-update-center \
    -h /dev/null \
    -o /home/kinow/Development/java/biouno/jenkins-update-center/update-center.json \
    -r /home/kinow/Development/java/biouno/jenkins-update-center/release-history.json \
    -repository https://biouno.org/jenkins-update-center/ \
    -hpiDirectory /home/kinow/Development/java/biouno/jenkins-update-center \
    -nowiki \
    -key biouno-update-center.key \
    -certificate biouno-update-center.crt \
    -root-certificate biouno-update-center.crt \
    -pretty"
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