Here’s a one for the masses:
My company has 2 prod jenkins servers, and my sandbox. The prod servers have grown independently, especially when it comes to Plugins. Additionally, users of one box aren’t necessarily users of the other.
For simplicity, Jenkins boxes are on the same Jenkins version (soon 2.492.3) and JRE 17 (eventually 21). Shared plugins are also at the same level. Both servers are on RHEL unix
What are some words of wisdom to:
- combine plugins lists
- combine/migrate jobs
- limit rights and perms of users between the previous tenants.
Other than hurdles associate with upgrading a server, any other validations that I might want to take special care for? I haven’t fully decided if I want to move boxA to boxB, or move both on to a new server.
Maybe I’ll get another ‘back of the napkin guide’ for server mergers, if the community needs it.