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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

Managing Views in Jenkins


Views are represented as tabs in the Jenkins platform on the main dashboard and are positioned at the top of the dashboard. Each tab is the manifestation of a view defined in the Jenkins system. The primary purpose of views is to display an organized subset of the jobs defined. Views can help us organize the jobs within Jenkins by category, state, or regular expression. A relatively new Jenkins installation may not require a structured organizational system but, as the number of jobs grows organically, organizing the jobs by category will become more and more important. In this section of Mastering Jenkins, we will learn how to manage views and discover some tips and tricks we can leverage to optimize our Jenkins installation.

Altering the default "View"

The default behavior of the Jenkins platform is to list all jobs defined in the Jenkins system on the main dashboard. The All tab displays every project currently defined in Jenkins in one all-encompassing list. As...