How do I automate provisioning a new Managed Master?

Robert Patrick

• January 24, 2019 14:31

My client has CloudBees deployed on OpenShift.  They are trying to create a self-service environment where a new managed (or team) master can be automatically provisioned when a new project request is submitted/approved.  Has anyone done this?  Are there documented APIs to accomplish this?

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  James Nord Engineering

  • January 24, 2019 14:55

  There is a CLI that your provisioning tools can call. There is a CLI call for creating Teams and updating their membership, There is also a CLI for creating Managed Masters

   

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  Robert Patrick

  • January 24, 2019 17:39

  I tried using the cjoc cli managed-master-provision-and-start command but either I am doing something wrong or it does not work.  What am I missing?

  % java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s https://<my-org>.cloudbees.net/cjoc/ -auth admin:<redacted> managed-master-provision-and-start master2

  ERROR: No such managed master exists: master2
  java -jar jenkins-cli.jar managed-master-provision-and-start NAME [--username VAL] [--password VAL] [--password-file VAL]
  Provisions and starts a Managed Master
  NAME : Managed master name
  --username VAL : User name to authenticate yourself to Jenkins
  --password VAL : Password for authentication. Note that passing a
  password in arguments is insecure.
  --password-file VAL : File that contains the password

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  Allan Burdajewicz

  • February 04, 2019 12:05

  Robert,

  You need to provide the full name of the master. You can execute the following to get that information:

  java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s https://<my-org>.cloudbees.net/cjoc/ -auth admin:<redacted> list-masters

  Regards,

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  Daniel Ritchie

  • March 04, 2019 18:06

  Sounds like you have a good solution identified, but FYI because I recently stumbled across this code snippet: 
  
  https://github.com/cloudbees/jenkins-scripts/blob/master/addClientMasterPlus.groovy

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