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Jenkins 2.x Continuous Integration Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Mitesh Soni, Alan Mark Berg
Book Image

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)

Getting started with the Blue Ocean dashboard

Blue Ocean is a new user interface for Jenkins. The idea of introducing Blue Ocean is to make Jenkins and Continuous Delivery approachable to all team members.

Getting ready

You will use Blue Ocean later in the chapter but you will install it here:

Verify in the Jenkins dashboard regarding the successful installation of the plugin:

Now you will create your first pipeline in Jenkins.

How to do it...

Now let's see how your pipeline looks in the Blue Ocean user interface. Go to the FirstPipeline pipeline job that you have...