Jira Issue Validator

Introduction

The Jira Issue Validator plugin extends the filtering capabilities of the Devtron CI and lets users perform validation based on Jira Ticket ID status. This plugin ensures that only builds associated with valid Jira tickets are executed, improving the accuracy of the CI process.

Prerequisites

• A Jira account with the necessary API access.

• The API credentials (username, password, and base URL) for your Jira instance. Obtain the API credentials from your Jira admin if required.

• A pull request raised with your Git provider. Title of pull request must contain the Jira ID.

• Jira Issue (e.g., REDOC-12)

• Webhook added to the git repository. Click here to know more.

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Steps

1. On the Edit build pipeline page, go to the Pre-Build Stage (or Post-Build Stage).

2. Click + Add task.

3. Select Jira Issue Validator from the list of plugins.

   • Enter a task name (mandatory).

   • Optionally, enter a description.

   • Provide values for the input variables.

   Variable	Format	Description
   JiraUsername	String	Your Jira username (e.g., [e-mail])
   JiraPassword	String	Your Jira API token provided by the Jira admin
   JiraBaseUrl	String	The base URL of your Jira instance (e.g., https://yourdomain.atlassian.net)

   • Trigger/Skip Condition allows you to set conditions under which this task will execute or be skipped.

   • Pass/Failure Condition allows you to define conditions that determine whether the build passes or fails based on Jira validation.

4. Go to the Build Stage.

5. Select Pull Request in the Source Type dropdown.

6. Use filters to fetch only the PRs matching your regex. Here are few examples:

   • Title can be a regex pattern (e.g., ^(?P<jira_Id>([a-zA-Z0-9-].*))) to extract the Jira ID from the PR title. Only those PRs fulfilling the regex will be shown for image build process.

   • State can be ^open$, where only PRs in open state will be shown for image build process.

7. Click Update Pipeline.

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Results

Case 1: If Jira issue exists and the same is found in the PR title

Figure 1: Jira Issue Match

Case 2: If Jira issue is not found

Figure 2: Error in Finding Jira Issue