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+#!/usr/bin/groovy
+node{
+
+  checkout scm
+
+  def pom = readMavenPom file: 'pom.xml'
+
+  def githubOrganisation = 'fabric8io'
+  def projectName = 'spring-cloud-kubernetes'
+  def dockerOrganisation = 'fabric8'
+  def artifactIdToWatchInCentral = 'spring-cloud-starter-kubernetes'
+  def artifactIdToWatchInCentralExtension = 'jar'
+  def imagesToPromoteToDockerHub = []
+
+  kubernetes.pod('buildpod').withImage('fabric8/maven-builder:1.1')
+  .withPrivileged(true)
+  .withSecret('jenkins-maven-settings','/root/.m2')
+  .withSecret('jenkins-ssh-config','/root/.ssh')
+  .withSecret('jenkins-git-ssh','/root/.ssh-git')
+  .withSecret('jenkins-release-gpg','/root/.gnupg')
+  .inside {
+
+    sh 'chmod 600 /root/.ssh-git/ssh-key'
+    sh 'chmod 600 /root/.ssh-git/ssh-key.pub'
+    sh 'chmod 700 /root/.ssh-git'
+    sh 'chmod 600 /root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg'
+    sh 'chmod 600 /root/.gnupg/secring.gpg'
+    sh 'chmod 600 /root/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg'
+    sh 'chmod 700 /root/.gnupg'
+
+    sh "git remote set-url origin git@github.com:${githubOrganisation}/${projectName}.git"
+
+    def stagedProject = stageProject{
+      project = githubOrganisation+"/"+projectName
+      useGitTagForNextVersion = true
+    }
+
+    String pullRequestId = release {
+      projectStagingDetails = stagedProject
+      project = githubOrganisation+"/"+projectName
+      useGitTagForNextVersion = true
+      helmPush = false
+    }
+
+    if (pullRequestId != null && pullRequestId.size() > 0){
+      waitUntilPullRequestMerged{
+        name = githubOrganisation+"/"+projectName
+        prId = pullRequestId
+      }
+    }
+
+    // lets check for spring-cloud-starter-kubernetes jar to detect when sonartype -> central sync has happened
+    waitUntilArtifactSyncedWithCentral {
+      repo = 'http://central.maven.org/maven2/'
+      groupId = pom.groupId
+      artifactId = artifactIdToWatchInCentral
+      version = stagedProject[1]
+      ext = artifactIdToWatchInCentralExtension
+    }
+  }
+}