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Mastering Jenkins

By : jmcallister -, Jonathan McAllister
Book Image

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

The Jenkins user interface


In Jenkins the dashboard represents the primary entry point into the Jenkins system. Upon loading Jenkins we are presented with a screen that allows us to create new jobs, schedule the execution of existing jobs, navigate into defined jobs on the system, and more. Let's drill-down into the capabilities of the main dashboard and dissect some of the functionality.

The user interface of Jenkins can be logically divided into four primary content areas: the Header, the Job Table, the Configuration Panel, and the Build Queue and Executor Status Panel. Figure 3-1 illustrates each of these four content areas.

Figure 3-1: The Jenkins dashboard

As we can see from the preceding screenshot, this specific Jenkins implementation is pretty slim; it has only one job and one view defined. Your specific Jenkins instance will probably be more complex. Let's take a quick tour of each of the previously described content areas and learn about the roles they play within Jenkins.

The main...