Stop Jenkins checking out Git URL in a Pipeline stage

Question

I have setup a Jenkins Declarative Pipeline job, and it pulls the Jenkinsfile from Git. I have a stage that is running on a another node (selected by a label), but it is trying to checkout the Jenkinsfile from Git too.

How can I stop this behavior? This particular slave is on the other side of a firewall and I can only reach it by SSH.

Answer 1

You can use the skipDefaultCheckout() in the options block. This will disable the checkout of the SCM on any node in any stage, so you will have to do a checkout scm step in the other stages manually.

pipeline {
    agent any
    options { skipDefaultCheckout() }
    stages{
        stage('first stage') {
            steps {
                checkout scm   
            }
        }
    }
}