How to get a list of installed Jenkins plugins with name and version pair

Question

How can I get a list of installed Jenkins plugins?

I searched the Jenkins Remote Access API document, but it was not found. Should I use Jenkins\' CLI? Is there a d

Answer 1

For Jenkins version 2.125 the following worked.

NOTE: Replace sections that say USERNAME and APIKEY with a valid UserName and APIKey for that corresponding user. The API key for a user is available via Manage Users → Select User → API Key option.

You may have to extend the sleep if your Jenkins installation takes longer to start.

The initiation yum update -y will upgrade the version as well if you installed Jenkins using yum as well.

#JENKINS AUTO UPDATE SCRIPT link this script into a cron
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!/bin/bash
sudo yum update -y
sleep 120
UPDATE_LIST=$( sudo /usr/bin/java -jar /var/cache/jenkins/war/WEB-INF/jenkins-cli.jar -auth [USERNAME:APIKEY] -s http://localhost:8080/ list-plugins | grep -e ')$' | awk '{ print $1 }' );
if [ ! -z "${UPDATE_LIST}" ]; then
    echo Updating Jenkins Plugins: ${UPDATE_LIST};
    sudo /usr/bin/java -jar /var/cache/jenkins/war/WEB-INF/jenkins-cli.jar -auth [USERNAME:APIKEY] -s http://localhost:8080/ install-plugin ${UPDATE_LIST};
    sudo /usr/bin/java -jar /var/cache/jenkins/war/WEB-INF/jenkins-cli.jar -auth [USERNAME:APIKEY] -s http://localhost:8080/ safe-restart;
fi
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