Example JobDSL for a multibranchPipelineJob which keeps only the last 10 builds

ci_jobs.groovy

// define the bitbucket project + repos we want to build
def bitbucket_project = 'myproj'
def bitbucket_repos = ['myrepo1', 'myrepo2']

// create a pipeline job for each of the repos and for each feature branch.
for (bitbucket_repo in bitbucket_repos)
{
  multibranchPipelineJob("${bitbucket_repo}-ci") {
    // configure the branch / PR sources
    branchSources {
      branchSource {
        source {
          bitbucket {
            credentialsId("top-secret-1234-some-guid")
            repoOwner("${bitbucket_project.toUpperCase()}")
            repository("${bitbucket_repo}")
            serverUrl("https://bitbucket.acme.com/")
            traits {
              headWildcardFilter {
                includes("master release/* feature/* bugfix/*")
                excludes("")
              }
            }
          }
        }
        strategy {
          defaultBranchPropertyStrategy {
            props {
              // keep only the last 10 builds
              buildRetentionBranchProperty {
                buildDiscarder {
                  logRotator {
                    daysToKeepStr("-1")
                    numToKeepStr("10")
                    artifactDaysToKeepStr("-1")
                    artifactNumToKeepStr("-1")
                  }
                }
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
    // discover Branches (workaround due to JENKINS-46202)
    configure {
      def traits = it / sources / data / 'jenkins.branch.BranchSource' / source / traits
      traits << 'com.cloudbees.jenkins.plugins.bitbucket.BranchDiscoveryTrait' {
        strategyId(3) // detect all branches
      }
    }

    // check every minute for scm changes as well as new / deleted branches
    triggers {
      periodic(1)
    }
    // don't keep build jobs for deleted branches
    orphanedItemStrategy {
      discardOldItems {
        numToKeep(-1)
      }
    }
  }
}

disableConcurrentBuilds

@timblaktu honestly I haven't done that yet, but you could try with the rateLimitBranchProperty , e.g.:

multibranchPipelineJob("your-multibranch-pipeline") {
  branchSources {
    branchSource {
      source {
        ...
      }
      strategy {
        defaultBranchPropertyStrategy {
          props {
            rateLimitBranchProperty {
              count(1)
              durationName("year")
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

See also my comment here: http://disq.us/p/270gwm6

Let me know if that works... :)

I tried this approach but it does not work for me. It indeed will block build number n+1 even after build number n is finished.
What disableConcurrentBuilds does is that only one build at a time is running.
I was unsuccessful in trying to use it properly in job DSL 1.77. Any hint appreciated