Pyenv Pipeline Plugin

A Jenkins plugin that provides a way to execute sh and bat Pipeline DSL commands within a specified Python virtualenv.

Overview

This plugin provides 1 new Pipeline DSL method:

• withPythonEnv: Specifies a Python virtualenv to execute any sh and bat DSL commands contained within its block.

  withPythonEnv takes a single String argument, which specifies the Python executable to use for the virtualenv. pyenv-pipeline will use the executable to generate a corresponding virtualenv. At runtime, it will take a snapshot of environmental variables with and without the virtualenv active. From this it generates a diff, and applies the environmental variable changes within the withPythonEnv block (reverting them after the block completes)

  The argument provided to withPythonEnv will first attempt to match it against the name of a ToolInstallation that is described by a ToolDescriptor with an ID that is contained within a pre-defined list of known Jenkins Python Tool plugin IDs. Currently, this plugin only looks to see if ShiningPanda is installed. If a ToolInstallation is matched, the location of that tool is used as the Python executable to generate the virtualenv.

  If no ToolInstallation is matched, we attempt to treat the argument as the location of an already existing virtualenv. A directory lookup is attempted with the string argument, and if the argument is determined to point to a virtualenv, we go ahead and use that.

  • In order for this feature to work, the passed argument must end with the OS appropriate file separator.

  Lastly, the argument is treated as the literal location of the Python executable to be used. This can be used to specify a specific Python installation (if the location is known beforehand), or to fallback and use the systems default Python installation.

  • withPythonEnv('python') {
        // Uses the default system installation of Python
        // Equivalent to withPythonEnv('/usr/bin/python') 
        ...
    }
    

  • withPythonEnv('/usr/bin/python3.5') {
        // Uses the specific python3.5 executable located in /usr/bin
        ...
    }

  • withPythonEnv('CPython-2.7'){
        // Uses the ShiningPanda registered Python installation named 'CPython-2.7'
        ...
    }

  • withPythonEnv('/home/user/managed_virtualenv/'){
        // Uses the virtualenv that already exists at /home/user/managed_virtualenv/
        ...
    }

Warnings:

• Earlier version of this plugin relied on using pysh and pybat steps to execute code within withPythonEnv blocks. These steps are no longer necessary. To migrate, simply remove the py prefix from any such steps, and the command should work as intended. The steps are still included, and are copies of the sh and bat steps. Eventually, the steps will be removed altogether.

• Multibranch pipeline builds will occasionally generate very long path names triggering pypa/virtualenv#596. In these instances, use of this plugin is not an option, at least at this time.