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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)

Copying an artifact from another build job

n this recipe, we will copy artifact/file/package from one build to other. It helps in the deployment or copy operations. Even with Master/Agent architecture, we can copy artifacts effortlessly using the Copy Artifact Plugin.

Getting ready

You need to allow read access to anonymous users, as the Copyartifact plugin treats builds running as an anonymous. To allow read access to anonymous, do the following:

Go to Manage Jenkins | Global Security Configuration:

Click on Save.

How to do it...

  1. Go to Jenkins dashboard | Project |...