diff --git a/plugins-compat-tester/src/main/java/org/jenkins/tools/test/hook/DeclarativePipelineHook.java b/plugins-compat-tester/src/main/java/org/jenkins/tools/test/hook/DeclarativePipelineHook.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6f24fea98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins-compat-tester/src/main/java/org/jenkins/tools/test/hook/DeclarativePipelineHook.java
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+package org.jenkins.tools.test.hook;
+
+
+import hudson.model.UpdateSite;
+import org.apache.maven.scm.ScmFileSet;
+import org.apache.maven.scm.ScmTag;
+import org.apache.maven.scm.command.checkout.CheckOutScmResult;
+import org.apache.maven.scm.manager.ScmManager;
+import org.apache.maven.scm.repository.ScmRepository;
+import org.jenkins.tools.test.SCMManagerFactory;
+import org.jenkins.tools.test.model.PluginCompatTesterConfig;
+import org.jenkins.tools.test.model.hook.PluginCompatTesterHookBeforeCheckout;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+/**
+ * Workaround for the declarative pipeline plugins since they are
+ * stored in a central repository.
+ *
+ */
+public class DeclarativePipelineHook extends PluginCompatTesterHookBeforeCheckout {
+
+        private String parentUrl = "scm:git:git://github.com/jenkinsci/pipeline-model-definition-plugin.git";
+        private String parentName = "pipeline-model-definition";
+        private String parentProjectName = "pipeline-model-definition";
+        private List<String> allBundlePlugins = Arrays.asList("pipeline-model-api", "pipeline-model-definition", "pipeline-model-extensions", "pipeline-model-json-shaded", "pipeline-stage-tags-metadata");
+        boolean firstRun = true;
+
+        public DeclarativePipelineHook() {}
+
+        /**
+         * All the plugins that are part of this repository.
+         */
+        public List<String> transformedPlugins() {
+            return allBundlePlugins;
+        }
+
+        /**
+         * Perform the checkout from the common repository. Since trying to work this into the PluginCompatTester
+         * class pretty much requires a specific rewrite, perform the checkout here and skip the main class.
+         */
+        public Map<String, Object> action(Map<String, Object> moreInfo) throws Exception {
+            PluginCompatTesterConfig config = (PluginCompatTesterConfig)moreInfo.get("config");
+            UpdateSite.Plugin currentPlugin = (UpdateSite.Plugin)moreInfo.get("plugin");
+            // We should not execute the hook if using localCheckoutDir
+            boolean shouldExecuteHook = config.getLocalCheckoutDir() == null || !config.getLocalCheckoutDir().exists();
+
+            if (shouldExecuteHook) {
+                System.out.println("Executing Declarative Pipeline Hook");
+                // Determine if we need to run the download; only run for first identified plugin in the series
+                if (firstRun) {
+                    System.out.println("Preparing for Multimodule checkout");
+
+                    // Checkout to the parent directory. All other processes will be on the child directory
+                    File parentPath = new File(config.workDirectory.getAbsolutePath() + "/" + parentName);
+
+                    System.out.println("Checking out from SCM connection URL: " + parentUrl + " (" + parentProjectName + "-" + currentPlugin.version + ")");
+                    ScmManager scmManager = SCMManagerFactory.getInstance().createScmManager();
+                    ScmRepository repository = scmManager.makeScmRepository(parentUrl);
+                    CheckOutScmResult result = scmManager.checkOut(repository, new ScmFileSet(parentPath), new ScmTag(parentProjectName + "-" + currentPlugin.version));
+
+                    if (!result.isSuccess()) {
+                        // Throw an exception if there are any download errors.
+                        throw new RuntimeException(result.getProviderMessage() + "||" + result.getCommandOutput());
+                    }
+                }
+
+                // Checkout already happened, don't run through again
+                moreInfo.put("runCheckout", false);
+                firstRun = false;
+
+                // Change the "download"" directory; after download, it's simply used for reference
+                File childPath = new File(config.workDirectory.getAbsolutePath() + "/" + parentName + "/" + currentPlugin.name);
+                System.out.println("Child path for " + currentPlugin.getDisplayName() + " " + childPath);
+                moreInfo.put("checkoutDir", childPath);
+                moreInfo.put("pluginDir", childPath);
+            }
+
+            return moreInfo;
+        }
+    }
diff --git a/plugins-compat-tester/src/main/java/org/jenkins/tools/test/hook/TransformPom.java b/plugins-compat-tester/src/main/java/org/jenkins/tools/test/hook/TransformPom.java
index a3c2ad66b..3e1dbc16e 100644
--- a/plugins-compat-tester/src/main/java/org/jenkins/tools/test/hook/TransformPom.java
+++ b/plugins-compat-tester/src/main/java/org/jenkins/tools/test/hook/TransformPom.java
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ public boolean check(Map<String, Object> info) {
         PomData pomData = (PomData)info.get("pomData");        
         MavenCoordinates parent = pomData.parent;
         MavenCoordinates coreCoordinates = (MavenCoordinates)info.get("coreCoordinates");
+        boolean isDeclarartivePipeline = parent.matches("org.jenkinsci.plugins", "pipeline-model-parent");
         boolean isCB = parent.matches("com.cloudbees.jenkins.plugins", "jenkins-plugins") ||
                 // TODO ought to analyze the chain of parent POMs, which would lead to com.cloudbees.jenkins.plugins:jenkins-plugins in this case:
                 parent.matches("com.cloudbees.operations-center.common", "operations-center-parent") ||
@@ -33,7 +34,7 @@ public boolean check(Map<String, Object> info) {
         boolean parentV2 = parent.compareVersionTo("2.0") >= 0;
         boolean coreRequiresNewParentPOM = coreCoordinates.compareVersionTo(CORE_NEW_PARENT_POM) >= 0;
 
-        if ( isCB || (pluginPOM && parentV2)) {
+        if ( isDeclarartivePipeline || isCB || (pluginPOM && parentV2)) {
             List<String> argsToMod = (List<String>)info.get("args");
             argsToMod.add("-Djenkins.version=" + coreCoordinates.version);
             // There are rules that avoid dependencies on a higher java level. Depending on the baselines and target cores