Save artifacts in Jenkins Pipeline

Built artifacts from Jenkins can be downloaded for local analysis and investigation, in case of tests failures. This can be achieved thanks to Jenkins’s built-in support for storing "artifacts", that is files generated during the execution of the Pipeline.


This is easily done with the archiveArtifacts step and a regex expression.

dir/**/*.*    -> archive all the files recursively under dir/

**/*.*                 -> archive all the files in the workspace

**/*.xml      -> archive all xml files in your workspace

dir/**/*.xml     -> archive all the xml files recursively under dir/

For example, if in your build a .dev file is created, then you can archive it doing:

 stage('Archive Artifacts'){

    archiveArtifacts artifacts: '**/*.dev'

 }

Then you can download it directly from Jenkins Web Console:

If you want to check the files on Jenkins server filesystem, then you can locate the artifacts in:

$JENKINS_HOME/jobs/<job_name>/builds/<build_number>/archive