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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 an Ant project for execution

Let's configure an Ant project in Jenkins with static code analysis, compilation of files, creation of a package file, and archiving it so you can use it later in another build job or project.

Getting ready

You have already created an Ant project in Jenkins in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Jenkins in the recipe Creating a Freestyle Job for an Ant project.

How to do it...

  1. Go to Jenkins dashboard | Ant project | General section.
  2. Select Discard old builds | Configure Max # of builds to keep (to avoid too many builds and save...