Export/import jobs in Jenkins

Question

Is it possible to exchange jobs between 2 different Jenkins'? I'm searching for a way to export/import jobs.

Answer 1

Probably use jenkins command line is another option, see https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Jenkins+CLI

• create-job: Creates a new job by reading stdin as a configuration XML file.
• get-job: Dumps the job definition XML to stdout

So you can do

java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s http://server get-job myjob > myjob.xml
java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s http://server create-job newmyjob < myjob.xml

It works fine for me and I am used to store in inside my version control system