How to run a job in jenkins when user comment in jira

[Ashish Ahuja]

How to run a job in Jenkins when user comment in Jira

[Petter Gonçalves · Accepted solution]

Hello Ashish,

You can use JIRA Webhooks to properly notify a script to trigger the build creation in Jenkins when an issue is commented:

Comment webhooks

- created (comment_created)

- updated (comment_updated)

- deleted (comment_deleted)

You can check more information about webhooks in the documentation below:

- JIRA Cloud Webhooks

Additionally, the app below provide you with the ability to create builds directly from JIRA, so you would only need to create a script to receive Jira webhook and trigger the creation of the build:

- Jenkins Integration from JIRA

Let me know if this information helps.

[Ashish Ahuja]

Hi Petter,

Thanks for the above information, it was very useful.

I am able to see Jenkin's job in Jira but how do I trigger those jobs through Jira.

[Petter Gonçalves]

Hello Ashish,

You can trigger the Jenkins builds by simply clicking to do it in the Issue view, as displayed in the screenshot below:

However, per your description, I believe you want it to be triggered automatically upon an issue comment. Since the plugin does not provide this kind of functionality, you will need to create a script to properly trigger those jobs, using the REST API of Jenkins and JIRA Webhooks, as mentioned before:

- Jenkins API

- JIRA Cloud Webhooks

In fact, you will need some dev skills to accomplish that. I must confess that I'm not a Jenkins specialist, so you will need to dig a little bit further in Jenkins REST API to develop the Script.

Let me know if there is anything else I can help.