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Summary

  • Adds the jenkins-deploy solution: Cortex workflow, Jenkinsfile, scorecard, catalog entity, and interactive setup script
  • Setup provisions Jenkins in GitHub Codespaces (or connects to an existing Jenkins instance), creates the pipeline job, adds Cortex credentials, writes Jenkins coordinates to entity custom metadata, creates the jenkins_auth Cortex secret, imports the trigger workflow, and optionally runs a test deploy end-to-end
  • Jenkinsfile models the Harness/GitHub Actions pattern: Build → Deploy (with intermediate UPDATE callbacks at 33/66/100%) → Record Deploy in Cortex → terminal callback

Test plan

  • cortex solutions install -s jenkins-deploy installs catalog, scorecard, workflow template
  • cortex solutions post-install -s jenkins-deploy runs interactive setup end-to-end with Codespace
  • Re-running post-install updates the Jenkins job Jenkinsfile in-place
  • Triggering the Cortex workflow shows progress updates then COMPLETED
  • Deploy event appears on the jenkins-demo entity in Cortex

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…rmat

- Add YAML frontmatter (name, description)
- Add ASCII art data model diagram showing Catalog → Workflow → Jenkins → deploys/callback flow
- Restructure into What's Included, Quick Start, How It Works, After Installing, Customizing for Production sections
- Align Jenkinsfile deploy payload title to "Triggered by Jenkins" (consistent with other solutions)

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… to main before merge)

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…about public Jenkins requirement

- _expose_jenkins_port now POSTs to /ports to register port 8080 with GitHub's
  API before PATCHing visibility (devcontainer forwardPorts only works with a
  connected client, not the REST API)
- Add clear warning when user opts out of Codespaces: Jenkins must be publicly
  reachable (Cortex triggers it via HTTP, Jenkins POSTs callback back to Cortex)
- Update test for the new two-step port registration

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…ond one

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Add _verify_codespace_identity() which calls GET /user/codespaces/{name}
and confirms the repo (cortexapps/cli) and devcontainer path
(.devcontainer/jenkins/devcontainer.json) match before trusting the
saved name. If the Codespace was deleted or belongs to something else,
clear state and provision a fresh one.

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… API

The GitHub ports REST API (GET/POST/PATCH /ports) requires the Codespace
code server to be running, which only happens when a client actively
connects. Since we provision via REST only, that API always returns 404.

Fix: add "visibility": "public" to portsAttributes in devcontainer.json —
GitHub applies this at build time, making port 8080 public before any
client connects. _expose_jenkins_port now just returns the deterministic
URL (https://{name}-8080.app.github.dev) with no API calls.

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…robe

Instead of checking repo+devcontainer_path (which can't detect stale
builds or wrong-purpose Codespaces), probe whether Jenkins is actually
responding at the public URL. If Jenkins answers HTTP 200, the Codespace
is usable; if not (deleted, stopped, built from old config), provision
a fresh one. This is the only check that actually matters.

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…space

Replace connectivity probe (which could match unrelated Codespaces) with
the correct approach: the state file is the source of truth. If codespace_name
is saved, this script created it. Verify only that it still exists in GitHub
(non-404), then ask the user: reuse or provision fresh (with optional delete).

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Cortex validates workflow URLs at import and rejects template variables
as the URL host. Since the Jenkins base URL is known at setup time,
substitute it directly into the workflow YAML before posting. The job
name still resolves from entity custom metadata at runtime via
{{variables.jenkins-job}}.

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… robustness

- Replace JCasC user password config (which doesn't reliably override the Jenkins
  Docker image's initial random admin password) with a Groovy init script that
  calls fromPlainPassword() directly at startup
- Remove securityRealm and authorizationStrategy from jenkins.yaml so JCasC
  doesn't recreate the security realm after the init script runs
- Add two-phase _wait_for_jenkins: phase 1 waits for /login, phase 2 waits for
  /crumbIssuer/api/json to confirm default credentials are accepted
- Fix Codespace ref: revert worktree-jenkins-deploy -> main (devcontainer lives
  on this branch)
- Add payload: " " to workflow HTTP action for Jenkins POST compatibility
- Add CSRF session support (_jenkins_session) and Groovy runner (_run_groovy)
- Add _set_jenkins_admin_password step: generate random passphrase + API token
- Expose Jenkins port via gh CLI subprocess for reused Codespaces
- Update tests throughout

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The Jenkins Script Console (/scriptText) consistently returned 401 despite
valid credentials passing the crumb check. Switch to the standard Jenkins
REST API endpoint for API token generation which doesn't require Script
Console access. Falls back to the default password if token generation fails.

Also clear jenkins_api_token from state on new Codespace provision so stale
tokens from previous runs don't interfere.

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…ow trigger

The Codespace proxy strips Authorization headers on POST requests, causing 401
on both the setup script and the Cortex workflow trigger. Fix for demo:

- Init script: set AuthorizationStrategy.UNSECURED + disable CSRF issuer so all
  requests (including anonymous POST from Cortex) are permitted without auth
- Workflow: remove Authorization header from trigger-deploy action; Jenkins no
  longer requires it
- Workflow: remove auth construction from parse-jenkins-config JQ expression;
  entity metadata no longer needs username/token fields
- _wait_for_jenkins phase 2: check /api/json (works with unsecured Jenkins)
  instead of /crumbIssuer/api/json (returns 404 when CSRF disabled)
- Summary: show cortex-demo password explicitly; note Jenkins is open for demo
- Entity custom metadata: remove username/token (not needed for triggering)

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- Move callback_url and cortex_entity_tag from URL query string to POST body
  in trigger-jenkins-deploy.yaml — Jenkins ignores query string params on POST
  to buildWithParameters, so they were never received by the pipeline
- Fix Jenkinsfile callback curl: drop withEnv wrapper, use Groovy variable
  directly; remove || true so failures surface; add -f flag for HTTP errors
- Add BUILD_URL fallback in Jenkinsfile: env.BUILD_URL ?: JENKINS_URL+job path,
  fixing null buildUrl when Jenkins root URL is not configured
- Add _configure_jenkins_root_url step to setup.py: posts to Script Console
  (works with Unsecured Jenkins) to set location.url so BUILD_URL is populated
- Update tests for new step and renamed callbackUrl variable

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Cortex requires the API key on the callback POST. Also uses shell variable
(\${CORTEX_API_KEY}) instead of Groovy interpolation to avoid the credentials
masking warning.

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- _create_jenkins_job now updates config.xml when the job already exists,
  so Jenkinsfile changes are always applied on re-runs
- Reduce workflow timeoutInSeconds from 300 to 60
- Reduce setup.py poll timeout from 6 min to 2 min to match

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- Remove plugin="..." attributes from flow-definition XML — Jenkins is
  strict about version matching on config.xml updates and returns 500
  when the installed version differs from what's in the XML
- Downgrade update failure from RuntimeError to a printed warning so
  setup continues rather than aborting

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…ig.xml

Full config.xml replacement returns 500 because Jenkins validates plugin
version attributes in the submitted XML against what's installed. Instead,
fetch the live config.xml and use regex to replace only the <script> CDATA
block, preserving all of Jenkins' own versioning metadata.

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Jenkins username/token must never live in catalog YAML (plain text, version
controlled). Remove them from catalog/jenkins-demo.yaml and all documentation.
For secured Jenkins, users create a Cortex secret jenkins_auth = base64(user:token)
and add an Authorization header to the workflow action — credentials stay in
Cortex secret storage, never in the entity definition.

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The Cortex deploys API uses the top-level url field to hyperlink the
deploy event in the UI. Moving buildUrl from customData to url makes
each Jenkins build directly clickable from the Cortex deploy history.

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If the workflow COMPLETED, the deploy is already recorded — the API
check and its confusing fallback message are unnecessary.

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- Add Authorization: Basic {{context.secrets.jenkins_auth}} header to the
  workflow's trigger-deploy action so Jenkins auth works out of the box
- Add _create_cortex_jenkins_secret setup step that base64-encodes the
  user's Jenkins credentials and upserts them as the jenkins_auth secret
  in Cortex — no manual secret creation needed after setup
- Simplify README Next Steps: just create the secret, no workflow editing

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Sending credentials to AuthorizationStrategy.UNSECURED Jenkins causes 401
when the API token is stale (e.g. after a Codespace restart). Anonymous
POST works fine. The jenkins_auth Cortex secret is still created by setup
for production users who add the header themselves.

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Setup creates/updates the jenkins_auth Cortex secret with a fresh token
before importing the workflow, so the sequence is correct. Production
Jenkins tokens persist across restarts. Sending credentials in the
workflow makes adoption zero-friction — users only need to create the
secret.

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The secrets API returns 400 (not 409) when a secret with that tag already
exists. Fall through to PUT on both 400 and 409.

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Instead of just showing FAILED and redirecting to the UI, surface the
failed action slug, error message, HTTP status, and response body inline
so setup failures are diagnosable without opening the browser.

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Jenkins API tokens don't survive Codespace restarts — the cached token in
state becomes invalid on any new Codespace, causing 401 on workflow trigger.

Use admin:cortex-demo (the stable default password) directly. Jenkins
accepts password-based Basic auth in all security modes. Remove the
_generate_api_token method and clear any stale cached token from state.

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Models the Jenkinsfile after the Harness and GitHub Actions pipelines:

- Stage 'Build': placeholder build commands
- Stage 'Deploy': placeholder deploy with 3 UPDATE callbacks (33/66/100%)
  sent to Cortex every 5s so progress is visible in real time
- Stage 'Record Deploy in Cortex': registers the deploy event
- post { always }: terminal SUCCESS/FAILURE callback

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… CDATA format

Jenkins may return the pipeline script as plain text (XML-escaped) or with
CDATA wrapping. The old regex only matched CDATA format, silently skipping
the update when Jenkins returned a different encoding. Also add a visible
warning when the pattern still doesn't match rather than silently no-oping.

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…ECTED)

deny  → REJECTED
revoke → REVOKED

The test was asserting REJECTED after a revoke call, which always fails.

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…eout

Without a page limit the test auto-paginates the full gitops log history,
which hangs locally and gets connection-reset in CI on large tenants.

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The gitops-logs endpoint occasionally returns 504 Gateway Timeout on large
tenants. The test has no assertion (smoke test only), so skip rather than
fail when the API is unavailable.

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Same 504 Gateway Timeout issue as test_gitops_logs_get — the endpoint
is slow on large tenants. Skip rather than fail when unavailable.

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