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Jenkins 2.x Continuous Integration Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Mitesh Soni, Alan Mark Berg
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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)

Efficient use of views

Jenkins' addictive ease of configuration lends itself to creating a large number of jobs. This increases the volume of information exposed to developers. Jenkins needs to avoid chaos by utilizing browser space efficiently. One approach is to define minimal views. In this recipe, you will use the DropDownViewsTabBar plugin. It removes views as tabs and replaces the tabs with one select box. This aids in quicker navigation. You will also be shown how to provision lots of jobs quickly using a simple HTML form generated by a script.

In this recipe, you will be creating a large number of views that you may want to delete later. If you are using a virtual box image, consider cloning the image and deleting it after you have finished.

Getting ready

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