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Archiving Artifacts in Jenkins Pipeline

📖 Scenario: You are working on a Jenkins pipeline that builds a simple project. After the build, you want to save the build output files so they can be accessed later. This is called archiving artifacts.Archiving artifacts helps keep important files safe and shareable after the build finishes.

🎯 Goal: Build a Jenkins pipeline script that archives the output.log file after the build step.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a Jenkins pipeline script with a pipeline block

Add a stage named Build that creates a file output.log

Add a stage named Archive that archives the output.log file using archiveArtifacts

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Archiving artifacts in Jenkins pipelines is essential for saving build outputs like logs, binaries, or reports. These files can be downloaded later or used in deployment steps.

💼 Career

Understanding artifact archiving is a key skill for DevOps engineers and CI/CD pipeline developers to ensure build results are preserved and traceable.

1

Create the Jenkins pipeline skeleton

Write a Jenkins pipeline script starting with pipeline and agent any. Add a stage named Build with a steps block that creates a file called output.log containing the text Build successful using the shell command sh.

Jenkins

pipeline {
    agent any
    stages {
        stage('Build') {
            steps {
                // Your code here
            }
        }
    }
}

Need a hint?

Use sh 'echo Build successful > output.log' inside the steps block to create the file.

2

Add the Archive stage

Add a new stage named Archive after the Build stage. Inside its steps block, prepare to archive the file output.log using the archiveArtifacts step.

Jenkins

pipeline {
    agent any
    stages {
        stage('Build') {
            steps {
                sh 'echo Build successful > output.log'
            }
        }
        // Your code here
    }
}

Need a hint?

Add a new stage('Archive') with a steps block inside stages.

3

Archive the output.log file

Inside the Archive stage's steps block, write the command archiveArtifacts artifacts: 'output.log' to archive the file output.log.

Jenkins

pipeline {
    agent any
    stages {
        stage('Build') {
            steps {
                sh 'echo Build successful > output.log'
            }
        }
        stage('Archive') {
            steps {
                // Your code here
            }
        }
    }
}

Need a hint?

Use archiveArtifacts artifacts: 'output.log' to save the file as an artifact.

4

Print confirmation message

Add a stage named Confirm after Archive. Inside its steps block, write echo 'Artifacts archived successfully.' using the sh step to print a confirmation message.

Jenkins

pipeline {
    agent any
    stages {
        stage('Build') {
            steps {
                sh 'echo Build successful > output.log'
            }
        }
        stage('Archive') {
            steps {
                archiveArtifacts artifacts: 'output.log'
            }
        }
        // Your code here
    }
}

Need a hint?

Use sh 'echo Artifacts archived successfully.' inside the Confirm stage to print the message.