Jenkins: How to Block execution of other job

veryangryman

I have a Jenkins Build X with the plugin option.

Block build if certain jobs are running

The problem is that i need to do the opposite. I want to block the "certain jobs" from running if X is running.

The jobs in question run every hour and may happen to execute while X is running. This would trip X over if it happened.

I know that Jenkins CLI can do a disable of the job, but then i have the overhead of having to re-enable and the issue of "what if job is aborted etc". So would ideally like to use the Block option.

Any suggestions?

jester77

I haven't played with jenkins in a while, but the upstream/downstream pipeline option might work. You could set Job B/C/D/etc to be downstreams of Job A. They will then wait until Job A is completed before executing.

veryangryman

jester77 wrote: »

I haven't played with jenkins in a while, but the upstream/downstream pipeline option might work. You could set Job B/C/D/etc to be downstreams of Job A. They will then wait until Job A is completed before executing.

Problem is that Jobs B,C,D are system checks that run every hour. Job B is for server B, job C for server C etc.

So while i am running Job A on server X, i dont want Job B to run on that server. C and D can do what they like as they are on different servers.

biko

As I see it you are probably best off pipelining the jobs every day (depending on what job X does).

Alternatively you will have to set the block options for jobs A,B,C (unless ABC are piped and you only have to block A)