remote pod template definition

[froucher]

Hello,

It will be very interesting to have a way to get the "pod template definition" from the repository which is going to be verified.

In my local, I am trying to check if it is possible, but the issue is that I can´t do a git checkout of a file without a workspace, that it must be provided by an agent.

So, maybe it will be not possible, ¿have you try to do this?

Thanks.

[liejuntao001]

If I understand right, you mean to define the dynamic agent type from a source file within the project to be built.
As you mentioned, an agent is required to checkout.
So we can use a static type of agent, for example, a mini size jnlp agent to perform the checkout, read the file, and get the agent type.
Then create a new dynamic agent from the type and switch to the new agent.

[froucher]

Thanks for your feedback. Sorry I don't see your answer until today.

Yes, this is the approach I have done: I provide the smallest static agent (alpine) and then I perform a checkout.

The issue is when finally the dynamic pod is created, it is necessary to do again a checkout, because each pod has its own file system.

Now it is working with this approach, but I have in my mind to do some improvement to try to just do the second checkout, and to replace the first checkout with a git archive --remote=ssh://***.git HEAD podTemplate.yml or similar.

After post this issue, based in your code, I started to try to implement this improvement, but it seems a complex task understanding how Jenkins git plugins works, so I leave it.

Thank you again, don't worry about this issue, if I do some progress then I will contact you.