Jenkins prevent specific jobs from building during defined time frame

Question

I've got two Jenkins jobs, a continuous integration job that runs whenever a new change is submitted, and a build/deploy job that runs everyday at noon. I do not want the builds to run simultaneously, so I am using the Throttle Concurrent Builds plugin to force only these two jobs to queue up if either of them is already running. Any of my other jobs are allowed to run at the same time as these two jobs.

I would like the build/deploy job to always run at noon, but sometimes a developer submits a change just before noon causing the build/deploy job to wait until the CI job finishes.

Is there a way to block only the CI job during a defined time frame, like 11:30am until 1pm, so that the build/deploy job will not be blocked at noon?

Answer 1

IMHO the are few possibilities:

• a first pre-step which check the date and exit with error if the date do NOT match the requirements
• two jobs which disable and enable the job programmatically calling the REST

eg job 1

curl -X POST http://usr:pwd@host/job/joobname/disable

and job 2

curl -X POST http://usr:pwd@host/job/joobname/enable

at given time.