# jenkins-job-builder mit Homebrew, apt, Nix installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für jenkins-job-builder in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:jenkins-job-builder
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install jenkins-job-builder
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install jenkins-job-builder
```

  Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: jenkins-job-builder from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#jenkins-job-builder
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: jenkins-job-builder from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:jenkins-job-builder
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 6.5.0
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Configure Jenkins jobs with YAML files stored in Git
- **Homepage:** <https://docs.openstack.org/infra/jenkins-job-builder/>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-05-25T00:00:08Z
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- jenkins-jobs (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 6.5.0
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

Jenkins Job Builder is a Python tool that converts YAML or JSON job definitions into Jenkins job configuration. Its package-manager role is to put the `jenkins-jobs` executable on a developer or CI administration machine so Jenkins jobs can be generated and updated from version-controlled text.

### Projektgeschichte

The project is documented with a 2012-2026 maintainer copyright range and has long been associated with the OpenStack/OpenDev infrastructure ecosystem. The OpenDev repository presents it as tools for making Jenkins jobs from templates and records the OpenDev migration patch in 2019.

The README says Jenkins Job Builder takes human-readable YAML or JSON descriptions of Jenkins jobs, uses them to configure Jenkins, and includes a flexible template system for creating many similar jobs.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

JJB became useful to infrastructure teams that wanted Jenkins jobs reviewed like code. Instead of treating the Jenkins web UI as the source of truth, teams could keep job definitions in Git, generate XML, test definitions locally, and upload changes through a repeatable CLI.

### Wie es verwendet wird

The documentation describes YAML or JSON job definition files, directories of definitions, job templates, projects, macros, and defaults. The execution docs show `jenkins-jobs test` for generating XML locally and `jenkins-jobs update` for uploading job and view definitions to a configured Jenkins server.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

JJB is a classic infrastructure-as-code package from the pre-Pipeline era of Jenkins administration. It matters to package nerds because it bridges human-editable job declarations, generated Jenkins XML, and distro-friendly Python packaging, preserving a workflow that predates many newer Jenkins configuration systems.

### Zeitleiste

- 2012: early project files and licensing history appear in the repository.
- 2014: sample and reference-test material appears in the repository history.
- 2019: the project migrated into the OpenDev namespace.
- 2024: Read the Docs configuration was added to the repository.

### Related projects

- Jenkins is the target automation server whose jobs and views JJB configures.
- OpenDev and the former OpenStack infrastructure tooling are historically connected to JJB's repository and review workflow.
- python-jenkins and PyYAML are related implementation dependencies named by the README for non-setup.py installation.

### Quellen

- <https://jenkins-job-builder.readthedocs.io/en/stable/>
- <https://jenkins-job-builder.readthedocs.io/en/stable/definition.html>
- <https://jenkins-job-builder.readthedocs.io/en/stable/execution.html>
- <https://opendev.org/jjb/jenkins-job-builder>


## Sicherheitshinweise

Für jenkins-job-builder wurde kein passendes lokales Secret-Handling-Manifest gefunden. Nucleus-Paketmetadaten bleiben hier veröffentlicht, damit künftige Abdeckung eine stabile Paket-URL hat.



## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: ~/.config/jenkins_jobs/jenkins_jobs.ini, <script directory>/jenkins_jobs.ini, /etc/jenkins_jobs/jenkins_jobs.ini

## Credential files

- Unix: ~/.config/jenkins_jobs/jenkins_jobs.ini, <script directory>/jenkins_jobs.ini, /etc/jenkins_jobs/jenkins_jobs.ini
## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - jenkins-job-builder - 6.4.2-3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: jenkins-job-builder from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Configure Jenkins using YAML files - metapackage | https://opendev.org/jjb/jenkins-job-builder
- Debian apt - jenkins-job-builder-doc - 6.4.2-3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: jenkins-job-builder-doc from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Configure Jenkins using YAML files - doc | https://opendev.org/jjb/jenkins-job-builder
- Debian apt - python3-jenkins-job-builder - 6.4.2-3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: python3-jenkins-job-builder from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | Configure Jenkins using YAML files - Python 3.x | https://opendev.org/jjb/jenkins-job-builder
- Nix - jenkins-job-builder: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: jenkins-job-builder from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/master/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
- Ubuntu apt - jenkins-job-builder - 3.11.0-6: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: jenkins-job-builder from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Configure Jenkins using YAML files - metapackage | http://ci.openstack.org/jenkins-job-builder
- Ubuntu apt - jenkins-job-builder-doc - 3.11.0-6: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: jenkins-job-builder-doc from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Configure Jenkins using YAML files - doc | http://ci.openstack.org/jenkins-job-builder
- Ubuntu apt - python3-jenkins-job-builder - 3.11.0-6: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: python3-jenkins-job-builder from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | Configure Jenkins using YAML files - Python 3.x | http://ci.openstack.org/jenkins-job-builder


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/jenkins-job-builder.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/jenkins-job-builder.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph