Export existing Jenkins configuration to YML about configuration-as-code-plugin HOT 10 CLOSED

If someone stumbled on this issue from google search, here is the document on "Exporting configurations" https://github.com/jenkinsci/configuration-as-code-plugin/blob/master/docs/features/configExport.md

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@jstrachan we will try to figure out a way to do that, don't think it will be a part of first official release though... knowing you're interested (well, actually almost every meetup about JCasC brings that question) will help with prioritisation for sure!

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We'd love to switch to Configuration as Code on Jenkins X - however we're a little too scared to go through all our configuration and figure out the correct YAML equivalent to get a working Jenkins with the new YAML notation.

If anyone can figure out some way to easily generate a YAML file from a running Jenkins server (whether its a CLI thing or script or hack or real UI thing I don't much care) - I'd be most grateful!!!

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@ewelinawilkosz awesome thanks! I'd have thought this issue is the biggest barrier to adoption - and most folks I talk to really wanna move to Configuration as Code ASAP!

Even if its just an extra plugin you install or some groovy script or something that'd really help.

I guess we could grab all the *.xml files and have some test program inside the Configuration as Code repo try and read those XML files and do its best to figure out the yaml equivalent?

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I think it even crossed our minds :) but again, we don't want to write xml parser... having it as a workaround could be acceptable and if requests like yours are coming we may need to reevaluate

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So far I we had to stitch a lot of examples together and I want to provide an full example for how we currently created our own Jenkins Master.

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for the record : pipeline snippet generator is implemented here

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A major blocker for me to implement this is one can't create a second Jenkins instance, as Jenkins#theInstance singleton will break.

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work started under https://github.com/jenkinsci/configuration-as-code-plugin/tree/export

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see #200

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