Export existing Jenkins configuration to YML

To make it really easy migrate already running Jenkins instances to Configuration as Code, or to just use Jenkins itself as editor for the YML file an export functionality should be supplied to the user from our UI footprint.

I imagine a kind of Export current configuration button or link, that will show the current Jenkins configuration as YML and make it easy to download it.

The user can then save the YML file to git and other places, and supply it back to a new or existing Jenkins instance to start using Configuration as Code Plugin.

I would expect also to be able to download the needed plugin.yml that described the needed plugin on my current instance.

[v7r]

If someone stumbled on this issue from google search, here is the document on “Exporting configurations” https://github.com/jenkinsci/configuration-as-code-plugin/blob/master/docs/features/configExport.md

[ewelinawilkosz]

@jstrachan we will try to figure out a way to do that, don’t think it will be a part of first official release though… knowing you’re interested (well, actually almost every meetup about JCasC brings that question) will help with prioritisation for sure!