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Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins

By : Nikhil Pathania
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Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins

By: Nikhil Pathania

Overview of this book

In past few years, Agile software development has seen tremendous growth across the world. There is huge demand for software delivery solutions that are fast yet flexible to frequent amendments. As a result, CI and continuous delivery methodologies are gaining popularity. Jenkins’ core functionality and flexibility allows it to fit in a variety of environments and can help streamline the development process for all stakeholders. This book starts off by explaining the concepts of CI and its significance in the Agile world with a whole chapter dedicated to it. Next, you’ll learn to configure and set up Jenkins. You’ll gain a foothold in implementing CI and continuous delivery methods. We dive into the various features offered by Jenkins one by one exploiting them for CI. After that, you’ll find out how to use the built-in pipeline feature of Jenkins. You’ll see how to integrate Jenkins with code analysis tools and test automation tools in order to achieve continuous delivery. Next, you’ll be introduced to continuous deployment and learn to achieve it using Jenkins. Through this book’s wealth of best practices and real-world tips, you'll discover how easy it is to implement a CI service with Jenkins.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Jenkins backup and restore


What happens if someone accidentally deletes important Jenkins configurations? Although this can be avoided using stringent user permissions, which we will see in the User administration section, nevertheless imagine a situation where the Jenkins server crashes or someone working on the Jenkins configuration wants to restore to a previous stable state of Jenkins. This leaves us with a few questions like, what to back up? When to back up? And how to backup?

From what we have learned so far, the entire Jenkins configuration is stored under the Jenkins home directory, which is C:\jenkins\ in our case. Everything related to Jenkins jobs like build logs, job configurations, and a workspace gets stored in the C:\jenkins\jobs folder.

Depending on the requirement, you can choose to backup only the configurations or choose to back up everything. The frequency of Jenkins backup can be anything depending on the project requirement. However, it's always good to back up Jenkins...