diff --git a/Jenkinsfile b/Jenkinsfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6ccbdcb86
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Jenkinsfile
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+pipeline {
+  agent any
+
+  stages {
+    stage('Check environment'){
+      steps {
+        sh 'env'
+script {
+                if (env.CHANGE_ID) {
+echo pullRequest.title
+echo pullRequest.body
+                }
+}
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/fromscratch.Jenkinsfile b/fromscratch.Jenkinsfile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8cbf32e7b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fromscratch.Jenkinsfile
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+def repos = [
+  'cfengine': [
+    'core',
+'enterprise',
+'nova',
+'masterfiles'
+  ],
+  'NorthernTechHQ': [
+['nt-docs': 'main'],
+  ]
+]
+
+rev_ref_description="Use NUMBER or 'pull/NUMBER/merge' for pull request (it's merged version, THIS DOESN'T MERGE THE PR) or 'pull/NUMBER/head' to run the tests on the non-merged code. Special syntax 'tag:SOME_TAG' can be used to use a tag as a revision."
+
+/* comments OK?
+TODO:
+- [ ] provide a way of specifying refs in other repos, like a coordinated multi-pr build
+*/
+properties([
+  buildDiscarder(logRotator(daysToKeepStr: '10')),
+  parameters([
+    string(name: 'CORE_REV', defaultValue: 'master'),
+    string(name: 'NOVA_REV', defaultValue: 'master'),
+    string(name: 'ENTERPRISE_REV', defaultValue: 'master'),
+    string(name: 'MASTERFILES_REV', defaultValue: 'master'),
+    string(name: 'DOCS_REV', defaultValue: 'master'),
+    string(name: 'DOCS_BRANCH', defaultValue: 'master', description: 'Where to upload artifacts - to http://buildcache.cloud.cfengine.com/packages/build-documentation-$DOCS_BRANCH/ and https://docs.cfengine.com/docs/$DOCS_BRANCH/'),
+    string(name: 'PACKAGE_JOB', defaultValue: 'testing-pr', description: 'where to take CFEngine HUB package from, a dir at http://buildcache.cloud.cfengine.com/packages/'),
+    string(name: 'USE_NIGHTLIES_FOR', defaultValue: 'master', description: 'branch whose nightlies to use (master, 3.18.x, etc) - will be one of http://buildcache.cloud.cfengine.com/packages/testing-pr/jenkins-$USE_NIGHTLIES_FOR-nightly-pipeline-$NUMBER/'),
+    string(name: 'NT_DOCS_REV', defaultValue: 'main', description: "${rev_ref_description}")
+  ])
+])
+
+// clean workspace on Success (specify all the OTHER cases as false)
+
+node('CONTAINERS') {
+  dir('documentation') {
+    checkout scm
+  }
+
+    stage('Checkout repositories') {
+          // Note that stages created this way are NOT available for "Restart from Stage" in jenkins UI
+repos.each { org ->
+  println("organization is ${org.key}")
+  org.value.each {  repo_data ->
+    if (!(repo_data instanceof Map)) {
+      repo_data=["${repo_data}": "master"]
+    }
+    repo_data.each{ repo, branch ->
+      stage("Checkout ${repo}") {
+        sh "mkdir -p ${repo}"
+        dir ("${repo}")
+        {
+          git branch: "${branch}",
+          credentialsId: 'autobuild',
+          url: "git@github.com:${org.key}/${repo}"
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+} // for the stage
+    stage('See what cloned') {
+        sh 'pwd'
+        sh 'whoami'
+        sh 'ls -la'
+        sh 'cd documentation; git log --oneline | head -n1'
+    }
+        withEnv([
+'BRANCH=master',
+'PACKAGE_JOB=testing-pr',
+'PACKAGE_UPLOAD_DIRECTORY=jenkins-master-nightly-pipeline-152',
+'PACKAGE_BUILD=1',
+]) {
+    stage('Build') {
+        // hard code for now, won't actually publish yet so not too big of a deal
+        sh 'bash -x documentation/generator/build/run.sh'
+        archiveArtifacts artifacts: 'output/', fingerprint: true
+    }
+}
+stage('Publish') {
+  sshPublisher(publishers: [sshPublisherDesc(configName: 'buildcache.cloud.cfengine.com', transfers: [sshTransfer(cleanRemote: false, excludes: '', execCommand: '''set -x
+export WRKDIR=`pwd`
+
+mkdir -p upload
+mkdir -p output
+
+# find two tarballs
+archive=`find upload -name \'cfengine-documentation-*.tar.gz\'`
+tarball=`find upload -name packed-for-shipping.tar.gz`
+echo "TARBALL: $tarball"
+echo "ARCHIVE: $archive"
+
+# unpack $tarball
+cd `dirname $tarball`
+tar zxvf packed-for-shipping.tar.gz
+rm packed-for-shipping.tar.gz
+
+# move $archive to the _site
+mv $WRKDIR/$archive _site
+
+ls -la
+cd -
+
+ls -la upload
+
+# note: this triggers systemd job to AV-scan new files
+# and move them to proper places
+mv upload/* output
+''', execTimeout: 120000, flatten: false, makeEmptyDirs: false, noDefaultExcludes: false, patternSeparator: '[, ]+', remoteDirectory: 'upload/$BUILD_TAG/build-documentation-$DOCS_BRANCH/$BUILD_TAG/', remoteDirectorySDF: false, removePrefix: '', sourceFiles: 'output/')], usePromotionTimestamp: false, useWorkspaceInPromotion: false, verbose: false)])
+}
+
+stage('Clean workspace on Success') {
+  cleanWs()
+}
+}
diff --git a/generator/build/run.sh b/generator/build/run.sh
index 0e1384ba0..864d321ac 100644
--- a/generator/build/run.sh
+++ b/generator/build/run.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/bash
+# documentation/generator/build/run.sh
+# In a container, using buildah, builds the documentation site and produces two files in output/:
+# - cfengine-documentation-<branch>.tar.gz - an archive of the documentation
+# - packed-for-shipping.tgz - the actual site, unpacked to _site
 
 set -ex
 trap "echo FAILURE" ERR