Update deprecated `updatecli` CLI calls to `updatecli pipeline` subcommands

[jayfranco999]

Service(s)

infra.ci.jenkins.io

Summary

While reviewing updatecli CLI help output, I noticed that the top-level commands we currently use are deprecated:

apply  → Deprecated in favor of `updatecli pipeline apply`
diff   → Deprecated in favor of `updatecli pipeline diff`

We are still calling the legacy commands in parts of our pipeline library. Although they continue to work for now, they are explicitly marked as deprecated and may be removed in a future release.

It would be safer to migrate to the supported pipeline subcommands to avoid unexpected breakage during a future updatecli upgrade.

Task list

Search for all usages of updatecli apply in:

• pipeline-library
• jenkins-infra repositories
• Replace with updatecli pipeline apply
• Search for all usages of updatecli diff
• Replace with updatecli pipeline diff
• Verify behavior in a staging job
• Confirm no behavior changes (dry-run + apply)
• Roll out to production pipelines

Reproduction steps

No response

[jayfranco999]

Update

Opened PR [jenkins-infra/pipeline-library#996] — two files changed:

vars/updatecli.groovy — migrates the CLI invocation from the deprecated top-level commands to the pipeline subcommands:

- updatecliCommand = "updatecli ${finalConfig.action}"
+ updatecliCommand = "updatecli pipeline ${finalConfig.action}"

test/groovy/UpdatecliStepTests.groovy — updated all assertions to match the new command format.

Testing plan

Going to validate against jenkins-infra/docker-matomo since it uses the shared library through parallelDockerUpdatecli.