Question

What are the ways to trigger a Jenkins Job/Pipeline?

Answer 1

There are many ways we can trigger a job in Jenkins. Some of the common ways are as below –

• Trigger an API (POST) request to the target job URL with the required data.
• Trigger it manually from the Jenkins web application.
• Trigger it using Jenkins CLI from the master/slave nodes.
• Time-based Scheduled Triggers like a cron job.
• Event-based Triggers like SCM Actions (Git Commit, Pull Requests), WebHooks, etc.
• Upstream/Downstream triggers by other Jenkins jobs.