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  2. JENKINS-58236

Provide mechanism to define dynamic stages in declarative pipelines

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      Hello, it would be great if we had a mechanism to define dynamic stages within declarative pipelines. The use case is that I want to create a pipeline function for micro service repositories. Each repository contains a number of container images that needs to be built in parallel. The only way I found is using the these pseudo stages wrapped by the `parallel` step:

      pipeline {
        agent any
        stages {
          stage('build') {
            steps {
              runParallel items: ("a".."f").collect { "Stage ${it}" }
            }
          }
        }
      }
      
      def runParallel(args) {
        parallel args.items.collectEntries { name -> [ "${name}": {
          stage("${name}") {
            echo name
          }
        }]}
      }
      

      This is bad because the sub-stages can neither have an agent nor contain other sub-stages. And it requires a separate function (I couldn't get it working without).
      On the other hand, this shouldn't make the declarative pipeline too scripty. A minimal scriptiness approach would look like this:

      pipeline {
        agent none
        stages {
          stage('build') {
            stages {
              ("A".."F").collect {
                stage("Stage ${it}") {
                  agent any
                  steps {
                    echo "Hello from stage ${it}!"
                  }
                }
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
      

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            hendrikhalkow Hendrik Halkow
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