Issue

• We are in process of taking backup of all existing jobs and we want to convert all existing jenkins jobs to DSL Script to save them in SCM…
• Is there a way we can convert all existing jenkins jobs to DSL Script?

Environment

• CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise

Resolution

If you just want to backup the Jenkins Job configuration, you can use the SCM Sync configuration plugin. It automatically commits every job modification to a SCM.

For DSL scripting, there is either:

• Jenkins Pipeline: A suite of plugins that lets you orchestrate automation, simple or complex.
• JobDSL plugin: a Groovy DSL to create and configure job programmatically. JobDSL scripts can be stored in a SCM and job reconfiguration can even be triggered on commit on this repository. The plugin has a extensive documentation on GitHub wiki. It can be difficult to start with but it’s very powerful.
• Literate plugin: a plugin using a file in the project source to explain on how to build the project.

Unfortunately, none of theses plugins can automatically convert existing job configuration to a script. The YAML Project Plugin can do that but the plugin is at its early stage.