I run a website that provides CapCut templates, video editing resources, and tutorials. I frequently update and add new CapCut templates, and I want to automate the deployment process using Jenkins. However, I’m facing some technical challenges.
I store CapCut templates (JSON and media assets) in a Git repository. I want Jenkins to detect new template additions and automatically deploy them to my website’s content management system (CMS). What’s the best approach to set up this automation?
Ensuring Correct File Formatting & Integrity
Before deploying, I need Jenkins to validate that the template JSON structure follows CapCut’s expected format and that media files aren’t corrupted. Are there plugins or scripts that can help with this?
Handling Large Media Files Efficiently
Some templates include large video and image assets. What’s the best way to manage and deploy these efficiently via Jenkins, considering bandwidth and storage limitations?
CI/CD Pipeline for Template Releases
I’d like to implement a staging environment where templates are reviewed before being published live. How can I configure Jenkins to deploy templates to a test environment first and only move them to production after approval?
What I’ve Tried:
Setting up a basic Jenkins pipeline that pulls from Git and syncs files to my server, but it lacks validation checks.
Exploring the use of Jenkins plugins like “Parameterized Builds” to allow manual approval before full deployment.
Looking into integrating AWS S3 for storing large media assets, but unsure how to automate the sync process with Jenkins.
Has anyone here used Jenkins for automating content deployment? Any advice on best practices, validation tools, or efficient media file handling would be greatly appreciated!
When you say you use git, do you have a plain git or are you using e.g. github, bitbucket or are you running a gerrit server maybe?
If yes you could make use of the workflows they offer. With github you would protect the main branch and allow additions only via a Pull Request. Jenkins has very good integration with github processes but there are also plugins for e.g. bitbucket, gerrit and gitlab. So when a new PR is opened github triggers a build in your Jenkins. Inside the pipeline you have access to the trigger details, e.g. the branch you’re building. So depending on the branch you decide if you want to deploy to your test environment or the prod environment. Once you validated you can merge the PR.
Things you would need to consider is how to handle parallel pull request. Would be no problem if you can start a test instance for each PR separately
In Jenkins pipelines there is an input step that will stop execution of the pipeline and ask for user input.
With plain git you can still work with different git branches and have Jenkins poll for changes to the branches.
How do you currently ensure correct File formatting and integrity? If you have a command line tool that does this then you can just call this in an sh (assuming you run on linux) step in your pipeline.
With large files you should definitely make use of git lfs, so that the media files files are not stored in your git repo directly. With additional tools it might be possible to push those files also to AWS S3 (just guessing based on a google search). Github also offers git lfs support though there is a file size limit as there is one for AWS S3 afaik
Jenkins has support for git lfs out of the box
I’m using GitHub to store CapCut templates and media assets. Your suggestion to leverage GitHub workflows along with Jenkins for PR-based deployments makes a lot of sense. I hadn’t fully considered protecting the main branch and automating deployments based on PR merges. I’ll explore configuring Jenkins to trigger builds on new PRs and setting up separate test instances for validation before merging to production.
For file formatting and integrity, I currently use a Python script that checks JSON schema compliance and verifies media file integrity. I can integrate this into my Jenkins pipeline as an sh step to automate validation. If there are any recommended Jenkins plugins for JSON validation or file integrity checks, I’d love to hear about them.
Regarding large media files, I’ll set up Git LFS to avoid bloating the repo and look into automating S3 sync from Jenkins. If anyone has experience with efficiently handling Git LFS + S3 in a CI/CD pipeline, I’d appreciate any insights!
Thanks again for your guidance! Looking forward to refining this workflow.