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Mastering Jenkins

By : jmcallister -, Jonathan McAllister
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Mastering Jenkins

By: jmcallister -, Jonathan McAllister

Overview of this book

With the software industry becoming more and more competitive, organizations are now integrating delivery automation and automated quality assurance practices into their business model. Jenkins represents a complete automation orchestration system, and can help converge once segregated groups into a cohesive product development and delivery team. By mastering the Jenkins platform and learning to architect and implement Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment solutions, your organization can learn to outmanoeuvre and outpace the competition. This book will equip you with the best practices to implement advanced continuous delivery and deployment systems in Jenkins. The book begins with giving you high-level architectural fundamentals surrounding Jenkins and Continuous Integration. You will cover the different installation scenarios for Jenkins, and see how to install it as a service, as well as the advanced XML configurations. Then, you will proceed to learn more about the architecture and implementation of the Jenkins Master/Save node system, followed by creating and managing Jenkins build jobs effectively. Furthermore, you'll explore Jenkins as an automation orchestration system, followed by implementing advanced automated testing techniques. The final chapters describe in depth the common integrations to Jenkins from third-party tools such as Jira, Artifactory, Amazon EC2, and getting the most out of the Jenkins REST-based API. By the end of this book, you will have all the knowledge necessary to be the definitive resource for managing and implementing advanced Jenkins automation solutions for your organization.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering Jenkins
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 4. Managing Views and Jobs in Jenkins

Managing views and jobs in Jenkins is typically a responsibility assigned to the Jenkins administrator. To assist us in this responsibility, our friendly Jenkins concierge features a number of investigative tools that we can leverage to debug any issues that may arise. In this chapter, we will get acquainted with some of the features Jenkins provides to administrators. We will learn to better navigate the Jenkins user interface and also learn how to trace job failures, sleuth slave node outages, and analyze health trends.

Learning to effectively navigate and manage a Jenkins instance is a skill that will be honed over time and generally comes through the experience of doing it. Experience can teach what no teacher could have taught. Wisdom evolves through these experiences and comes from practice. As you spend more time practicing and honing your Jenkins skills, you will learn how to effectively manage a Jenkins instance of any size.

 

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