How to Create a GitLab Multibranch Pipeline in Jenkins

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Timecodes ⏱:

00:00 Introduction
00:21 Overview
00:34 Starting point
02:03 Create a GitLab Personal Access Token to use with a Jenkins controller
03:16 Create a SSH Key in GitLab
04:11 Create a GitLab Personal Access Token credential in a Jenkins controller
05:01 Create a SSH Username with private key credential in a Jenkins controller
06:09 Configure GitLab server
07:44 Create a multibranch pipeline
11:01 Add a Jenkinsfile to the GitLab project
12:57 Create a new branch in the GitLab project
14:09 Modify the Jenkinsfile in the new branch
15:42 Create a merge request in GitLab
16:28 Review the MR in the multibranch pipeline
17:10 Merge the merge request and review the multibranch pipeline
18:41 Conclusion

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Information referenced in this video:

Jenkins LTS 2.277.1
GitLab Branch Source plugin 1.5.4

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[mitya]

Many thanks. I waste much time to find right solution for configuring webhooks in multibranch jobs. Will try Gitlab Branch Source plugin)

[itsfaustvi]

this single video saved me a ton of time of research, thanks deeply

[nurmamedamanov]

Thank you, your video was very useful!

[VelikiyZmey]

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[chiragprajapati]

Thanks, Really helpful for Multibranch pipeline configure

[nelta]

I can not add any credential, even i have already added the new one, it doesn't appear on droplist. How to fix it?

[chawkimguedmini]

Thanks for this video, it's very helpful. One question please is this applicable for the pull request?

[zoepthe]

Anybody encounred an issue where multibranch not clones the repo but just obtains the Jenkinsfile ?

[gzdaniel]

Why `When { branch 'MR-*' }` work for merge request from fix-123 to main? There is no branch name of 'MR-*' there.

[ashish]

hi,
I need to download artifacts in gitlab workspace once the Jenkin job is completed. I am using sleep as delay after my curl build command to wait for the build to be complated as of now, but I want to make it dynamic. Could anyone suggest me how do i do that?

[rssaini]

What you done to publish a pipeline status to the gitlab commit or branch?

[jteasler]

I don't have anything in secret token? Is that a different video?

[AbhijeetWaghmare]

Thanks for this video just one question can this work fine when I want to merge my changes into another branch instead main/master branch of gitlab. If yes how can we do that?

[raghupathym]

How to trigger gitlab pipeline when commit to other branches except develop and master, also while merge to master branch?
The below code is not working
rules:
- if: $CI_COMMIT_BRANCH != “master”
- if: $CI_COMMIT_BRANCH != “develop”
- if: == “master"

[mustafasamilileri]

Hello Dear ;
i have this problem
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
i did eveything like you but is not working on jenkins can you help me please ?