CI/CD

There are four teams in your organization. How to prioritize the builds of each team? So the jobs of team x will always run before team y for example

Difficulty: unrated

Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

In Jenkins, you can prioritize the builds of each team by using the "Priority Sorter" plugin. Here are the steps to set up build prioritization:

  1. Install the "Priority Sorter" plugin if it's not already installed in Jenkins.
  2. Go to the Jenkins system configuration page and click on "Configure Global Security". Scroll down to the "Access Control" section and click on "Per-project basis".
  3. In the "Project default actions" section, select "Configure build triggers and execution" from the dropdown menu. Click on "Add user or group" and add the groups that represent each team in your organization.
  4. Go to each Jenkins job configuration page and click on "Configure". Scroll down to the "Build Environment" section and click on "Add build step". Select "Set build priority with Priority Sorter" from the list of options.
  5. Set the priority of the job based on the team that owns it. For example, if Team X owns the job, set the priority to a higher value than the jobs owned by Team Y. Click "Save" to save the job configuration.

With this setup, Jenkins will prioritize the builds of each team based on the priority value set in the job configuration. Jobs owned by Team X will have a higher priority than jobs owned by Team Y, ensuring that they are executed first.