Create a service hook for Jenkins

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02/08/2025

Azure DevOps Services | Azure DevOps Server 2022 - Azure DevOps Server 2019

This article describes how to set up a service hook for your Azure DevOps project to trigger a Jenkins build. If you use Jenkins to build your apps, you can store your code in a Git repository and use Jenkins for your continuous integration builds. You can trigger a Jenkins build when you push code to your Git repository or when you check in code to a Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) repository.

You can build part of your app in Azure Pipelines and part in Jenkins. You can trigger a Jenkins build when your Azure Pipelines build is completed so that you use both systems to build your app.

Azure DevOps doesn't charge for setting up service hooks or integrating with external services, and Jenkins is fully open-source and free to use.

Prerequisites

Category	Requirements
Permissions	- Member of the Project Collection Administrators group. Organization owners are automatically members of this group. - Edit subscriptions and View subscriptions permissions set to Allow. By default, only project administrators have these permissions. To grant the permissions to other users, you can use the command-line tool or the Security REST API.
Tools	Jenkins server. If you set up Jenkins on-premises, enable HTTPS. In your jenkins.xml configuration file, set the hudson.plugins.git.GitStatus.NOTIFY_COMMIT_ACCESS_CONTROL system property to `disabled` by adding or updating the following line in the `<arguments>` tag, before the `-jar` parameter: `-Dhudson.plugins.git.GitStatus.NOTIFY_COMMIT_ACCESS_CONTROL=disabled`.

Create a Jenkins service hook

Do the following steps to create a Jenkins service hook.

Set up a Jenkins build

In Jenkins, create a new item.
Select the type of build that's appropriate for your project.
Enter the URL for your Git repository.

Set up the Jenkins service hook

In your Azure DevOps project, go to Project settings > Service hooks at https://<organization-name>/<project-name>/_settings/serviceHooks.
On the Service Hooks page, select the + icon or Create subscription.
On the Service screen, select Jenkins, and then select Next.
On the Trigger screen, select and configure the Azure DevOps event you want to trigger a Jenkins build, and then select Next.
On the Action screen, configure the Jenkins action to take when the event occurs.
Select Test to test the service hook, and Finish to finish the configuration.

Now when the event occurs in the Git repository, it triggers a Jenkins build.

Tip

You can also create a service hook subscription programmatically with REST APIs. For more information, see Create a service hook subscription programmatically.

Additional resources

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