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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)

Configuring Authorization - Matrix-based security

In the Authorization section, we can configure Matrix-based security so that we can configure who can do what. We can configure predefined roles available in Jenkins.

Getting ready

Select Matrix-based security and add a name in the User/group to add box. Make sure that you give access to admin before saving it; otherwise, the Jenkins account will be locked out:

How to do it...

  1. Give the name of our newly created user, click on Add, and provide all the required rights. We can do the same thing for different users.
  2. Click...