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Jenkins 2.x Continuous Integration Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Mitesh Soni, Alan Mark Berg
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Jenkins 2.x Continuous Integration Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Mitesh Soni, Alan Mark Berg

Overview of this book

Jenkins 2.x is one of the most popular Continuous Integration servers in the market today. It was designed to maintain, secure, communicate, test, build, and improve the software development process. This book will begin by guiding you through steps for installing and configuring Jenkins 2.x on AWS and Azure. This is followed by steps that enable you to manage and monitor Jenkins 2.x. You will also explore the ways to enhance the overall security of Jenkins 2.x. You will then explore the steps involved in improving the code quality using SonarQube. Then, you will learn the ways to improve quality, followed by how to run performance and functional tests against a web application and web services. Finally, you will see what the available plugins are, concluding with best practices to improve quality.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Improving security with Jenkins configuration

In this section, we will cover how to manage multiple users.

Getting ready

Through user management, we can provide access to Jenkins to multiple users and provide them with roles based on project-based access when it is required. The Manage Users will only appear if the selected security realm is Jenkins' own user database.

  1. Go to Manage Jenkins and click on Manage Users:
  1. Verify the existing admin user available in Jenkins:
  1. Click on the Create User link and provide details:
  1. Verify the list of users in Manage Jenkins| Manage Users:

You can change or delete users from Manage Jenkins | Manage Users.

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