creating jenkins jobs with ansible

Question

I\'m working on a project to deploy a jenkins CI server on centos7 using ansible And I\'m having problems creating jenkins jobs from an xml template using ansible.

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Answer 1

The command module doesn't support input and output redirection since it doesn't pass the command string to a shell. This is what its documentation says:

It will not be processed through the shell, so variables like $HOME and operations like "<", ">", "|", and "&" will not work (use the shell module if you need these features).

So:

- name: create jenkins jobs with xml files
  sudo: yes
  shell: "java -jar {{ jenkins.cli_dest }} -s http://localhost:8080 create-job {{ item.name }} < {{ jenkins_dest }}/{{ item.xml_name }}"
  with_items: jenkins_jobs