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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 a pipeline job for end-to-end automation

In this recipe, you will create script to create a pipeline similar to what you configured with the Build Pipeline plugin.

Getting ready

Click on Pipeline Syntax to generate the syntax for specific tasks you want to execute.

You can select the steps and configure the required things, and then click on Generate Pipeline Script to get the syntax that you can directly utilize in your pipeline:

Before creating your first script for a pipeline, let's understand some important terms.

The node defines the node created in the context of the Jenkins' master agent architecture. It executes the step the moment the executor is available on node. It creates a workspace or...