# Jenkins Plugin (Alpha)
Website: [https://jenkins.io/](https://jenkins.io/)
## Setup
1. If you have a standalone app (you didn't clone this repo), then do
```bash
yarn add @backstage/plugin-jenkins
```
2. Add plugin:
```js
// packages/app/src/plugins.ts
export { plugin as Jenkins } from '@backstage/plugin-jenkins';
```
3. Add proxy configuration to `app-config.yaml`
```yaml
proxy:
'/jenkins/api':
target: 'http://localhost:8080' # your Jenkins URL
changeOrigin: true
headers:
Authorization:
$env: JENKINS_BASIC_AUTH_HEADER
```
4. Add an environment variable which contains the Jenkins credentials, (note: use an API token not your password)
```shell
HEADER=$(echo -n user:api-token | base64)
export JENKINS_BASIC_AUTH_HEADER="Basic $HEADER"
```
5. Run app with `yarn start`
6. Add the Jenkins folder annotation to your `component-info.yaml`, (note: currently this plugin only supports folders and Git SCM)
```yaml
apiVersion: backstage.io/v1alpha1
kind: Component
metadata:
name: 'your-component'
description: 'a description'
annotations:
jenkins.io/github-folder: 'folder-name/job-name'
spec:
type: service
lifecycle: experimental
owner: your-name
```
7. Register your component
8. Click the component in the catalog you should now see Jenkins builds, and a last build result for your master build.
## Features
- View all runs inside a folder
- Last build status for specified branch
- View summary of a build
## Limitations
- Only works with projects that use the Git SCM
- It requires jobs to be organised into folders
- No pagination support currently - don't run this on a Jenkins with lots of builds