Calling a Jenkins build from outside of Jenkins?

Question

I am new to Jenkins, and I\'m not sure if this is possible, but I would like to set up a web interface where somebody could click \"Start Job\" and this will tell Jenkins to

Answer 1

Here is a link to the documentation: Jenkins Remote Access API.

Check out the Submitting jobs section.

In your job configuration you setup a token and then create a POST request to JENKINS_URL/job/JOBNAME/build?token=TOKEN. That's probably the most basic usage.