Jenkins – Multi branch pipeline jenkins job with [ci skip]

You can use the timeout step:

timeout(20) {
  node {
    sh 'foo'
  }
}

If you need a different TimeUnit than MINUTES, you can supply the unit argument:

timeout(time: 20, unit: 'SECONDS') {

EDIT Aug 2018: Nowadays with the more common declarative pipelines (easily recognized by the top-level pipeline construct), timeouts can also be specified using options on different levels (per overall pipeline or per stage):

pipeline {
  options {
      timeout(time: 1, unit: 'HOURS') 
  }
  stages { .. }
  // ..
}

Still, if you want to apply a timeout to a single step in a declarative pipeline, it can be used as described above.

You should add the branch name to your upstream job (assuming you are using a multi-branch pipeline for the upstream job too).

Suppose you have a folder with two jobs, both multi-branch pipeline jobs: jobA and jobB; jobB should trigger after jobA's master.

You can add this code snippet to jobB's Jenkinsfile:

properties([
  pipelineTriggers([
    upstream(
      threshold: 'SUCCESS',
      upstreamProjects: '../jobA/master'
    )
  ])
])

(Mind that any branch of jobB here will trigger after jobA's master!)