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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

Jenkins configuration


In the previous sections, we saw how to install and configure Artifactory and SonarQube along with SonarQube Runner. For these tools to work in collaboration with Jenkins, we need to install their respective Jenkins plugins.

Also, we will see the installation of a special plugin named delivery pipeline plugin, which is used to give a visual touch to our Continuous Integration pipeline.

Installing the delivery pipeline plugin

To install the delivery pipeline plugin, perform the following steps:

  1. On the Jenkins Dashboard, click on the Manage Jenkins link. This will take you to the Manage Jenkins page.

  2. Click on the Manage Plugins link and go to the Available tab.

  3. Type delivery pipeline plugin in the search box.

  4. Select Delivery Pipeline Plugin from the list and click on the Install without restart button.

  5. The download and installation of the plugin starts automatically. You can see Delivery Pipeline Plugin has some dependencies that get downloaded and installed.

Installing the...