Jenkins Build Pipeline Scheduled Trigger

Question

How can a build pipeline be scheduled to execute at a certain time of the night just like a regular job can be?

Answer 1

Declarative pipeline has triggers directive, one uses it like this:

triggers { cron('H 4/* 0 0 1-5') }

I took it from Pipeline Syntax docs

Answer 2

You can set the job parameters using the following syntax:

properties([pipelineTriggers([cron('H 23 * * *')])])

Adding this line to your build script or Jenkinsfile will configure the job to run every night at 11PM.

Answer 3

Complete Example (taken from docs) Ref: https://jenkins.io/doc/book/pipeline/syntax/#triggers

pipeline {
    agent any
    triggers {
        cron('H */4 * * 1-5')
    }
    stages {
        stage('Example') {
            steps {
                echo 'Hello World'
            }
        }
    }
}