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Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins

By : Nikhil Pathania
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Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins

By: Nikhil Pathania

Overview of this book

In past few years, Agile software development has seen tremendous growth across the world. There is huge demand for software delivery solutions that are fast yet flexible to frequent amendments. As a result, CI and continuous delivery methodologies are gaining popularity. Jenkins’ core functionality and flexibility allows it to fit in a variety of environments and can help streamline the development process for all stakeholders. This book starts off by explaining the concepts of CI and its significance in the Agile world with a whole chapter dedicated to it. Next, you’ll learn to configure and set up Jenkins. You’ll gain a foothold in implementing CI and continuous delivery methods. We dive into the various features offered by Jenkins one by one exploiting them for CI. After that, you’ll find out how to use the built-in pipeline feature of Jenkins. You’ll see how to integrate Jenkins with code analysis tools and test automation tools in order to achieve continuous delivery. Next, you’ll be introduced to continuous deployment and learn to achieve it using Jenkins. Through this book’s wealth of best practices and real-world tips, you'll discover how easy it is to implement a CI service with Jenkins.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Managing Jenkins plugins


Jenkins derives most of its power from plugins. As discussed in the previous chapter, every plugin that gets installed inside Jenkins manifests itself as a parameter, either inside Jenkins system configurations or inside a Jenkins job. Let's see where and how to install plugins.

In the current section, we will see how to manage plugins using the Jenkins plugins manager. We will also see how to install and configure plugins.

The Jenkins Plugins Manager

The Jenkins Plugin Manager section is a place to install, uninstall, and upgrade Jenkins plugins. Let us understand it in detail:

  1. From the Jenkins Dashboard, click on the Manage Jenkins link.

  2. From the Manage Jenkins page, click on the Manage Plugins link.

    Note

    You can also access the same Jenkins Plugin Manager page using the link http://localhost:8080/jenkins/pluginManager/.

  3. The following screenshot is what you see when you land on the Jenkins Plugin Manager page.

  4. The following four tabs are displayed in the screenshot:

    • The...