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Extending Jenkins

By : Donald Simpson
Book Image

Extending Jenkins

By: Donald Simpson

Overview of this book

Jenkins CI is the leading open source continuous integration server. It is written in Java and has a wealth of plugins to support the building and testing of virtually any project. Jenkins supports multiple Software Configuration Management tools such as Git, Subversion, and Mercurial. This book explores and explains the many extension points and customizations that Jenkins offers its users, and teaches you how to develop your own Jenkins extensions and plugins. First, you will learn how to adapt Jenkins and leverage its abilities to empower DevOps, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, and Agile projects. Next, you will find out how to reduce the cost of modern software development, increase the quality of deliveries, and thereby reduce the time to market. We will also teach you how to create your own custom plugins using Extension points. Finally, we will show you how to combine everything you learned over the course of the book into one real-world scenario.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Extending Jenkins
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Use case scenario 4 – UI tweaks


Sometimes Jenkins is set up and then left running in the background doing its thing; it's rarely checked upon or looked at unless things go wrong, and users are happy that things get done.

On other occasions, the Jenkins UI is used heavily by many people at the same time, all of whom will inevitably have their own requirements and priorities, and then the look and feel of Jenkins becomes a high priority.

There are many ways in which you can give the users what they want, including setting up numerous views, each providing a different user or group with a view of the (Jenkins) world that suits them.

Using the simple .*job.* regular expression ensures that all jobs (both present and future) that contain the string "job" in their title will be displayed on this view. Again, this really relies on a decent naming convention being followed, but if this is done, it can reduce the maintenance requirements of this aspect to nothing—when a new matching job is created,...