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Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins - Second Edition

By : Nikhil Pathania
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Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins - Second Edition

By: Nikhil Pathania

Overview of this book

In past few years, agile software development has seen tremendous growth. There is a huge demand for software delivery solutions that are fast yet flexible to numerous amendments. As a result, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) methodologies are gaining popularity. This book starts off by explaining the concepts of CI and its significance in the Agile. Next, you'll learn how to configure and set up Jenkins in many different ways. The book exploits the concept of "pipeline as code" and various other features introduced in the Jenkins 2.x release to their full potential. We also talk in detail about the new Jenkins Blue Ocean interface and the features that help to quickly and easily create a CI pipeline. Then we dive into the various features offered by Jenkins one by one, exploiting them for CI and CD. Jenkins' core functionality and flexibility allows it to fit in a variety of environments and can help streamline the development process for all stakeholders. Next, you'll be introduced to CD and will learn how 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 CI and CD using Jenkins.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

The Jenkins Manage Nodes page


In the following section, we will take a look at the Jenkins Manage Nodes page:

  1. From the Jenkins dashboard, click on Manage Jenkins | Manage Nodes.
  2. On the left-hand side, you will see a menu; the options are as explained in the following screenshot:

Jenkins Manage Nodes page

  1. On the right-hand side, you will also see a table showing the list of available Jenkins slaves, as shown in the following screenshot:

List of available nodes

  1. Since we haven't configured any Jenkins slaves yet, the list (as shown in the preceding screenshot) contains only one entry: that is, master.
  2. Along with the node's Name, the table also displays other useful information about the node, such as its Architecture, the amount of Free Disk Space, and the Response Time.
  3. To enable/disable the amount of information being displayed about each node, click on the Configure link (see the Jenkins Manage Nodes page screenshot). This will take you to the next page, as shown in the following screenshot:

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