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Hands-On Continuous Integration and Delivery

By : Jean-Marcel Belmont
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Hands-On Continuous Integration and Delivery

By: Jean-Marcel Belmont

Overview of this book

Hands-On Continuous Integration and Delivery starts with the fundamentals of continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) and where it fits in the DevOps ecosystem. You will explore the importance of stakeholder collaboration as part of CI/CD. As you make your way through the chapters, you will get to grips with Jenkins UI, and learn to install Jenkins on different platforms, add plugins, and write freestyle scripts. Next, you will gain hands-on experience of developing plugins with Jenkins UI, building the Jenkins 2.0 pipeline, and performing Docker integration. In the concluding chapters, you will install Travis CI and Circle CI and carry out scripting, logging, and debugging, helping you to acquire a broad knowledge of CI/CD with Travis CI and CircleCI. By the end of this book, you will have a detailed understanding of best practices for CI/CD systems and be able to implement them with confidence.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Adding environment variables

You can add environment variables in Jenkins in a number of different ways.

Global environment variable configuration

From the Jenkins dashboard, click the Manage Jenkins button:

Once you click the Manage Jenkins button, you will need to click the Configure System button:

You will then be navigated to the Configure System section and will then be able to add environment variables using the Global properties section:

Notice here that I added a Name, SAMPLE_VALUE, with the Value as Hello Book Readers. Now, this global property is available as an environment variable in the shell environment variable. You can add as many environment variables as you need in this section. Note that this global...