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Mastering Jenkins

By : jmcallister -, Jonathan McAllister
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Mastering Jenkins

By: jmcallister -, Jonathan McAllister

Overview of this book

With the software industry becoming more and more competitive, organizations are now integrating delivery automation and automated quality assurance practices into their business model. Jenkins represents a complete automation orchestration system, and can help converge once segregated groups into a cohesive product development and delivery team. By mastering the Jenkins platform and learning to architect and implement Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment solutions, your organization can learn to outmanoeuvre and outpace the competition. This book will equip you with the best practices to implement advanced continuous delivery and deployment systems in Jenkins. The book begins with giving you high-level architectural fundamentals surrounding Jenkins and Continuous Integration. You will cover the different installation scenarios for Jenkins, and see how to install it as a service, as well as the advanced XML configurations. Then, you will proceed to learn more about the architecture and implementation of the Jenkins Master/Save node system, followed by creating and managing Jenkins build jobs effectively. Furthermore, you'll explore Jenkins as an automation orchestration system, followed by implementing advanced automated testing techniques. The final chapters describe in depth the common integrations to Jenkins from third-party tools such as Jira, Artifactory, Amazon EC2, and getting the most out of the Jenkins REST-based API. By the end of this book, you will have all the knowledge necessary to be the definitive resource for managing and implementing advanced Jenkins automation solutions for your organization.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering Jenkins
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Importing a Maven-generated skeleton into IntelliJ


Importing a plugin into the IntelliJ IDEA IDE will provide us with a comprehensive set of development tools and will streamline the development of our plugin. To get up-and-running we will need to import an already created plugin (either checked out from GitHub OR created using the mvn hpi:create command). In this section we will discuss how to import a Maven project (the Jenkins hpi plugin) into a new project in IntelliJ IDEA and learn how to use the IDE to actively develop it.

Let's learn how to import our helloJenkins plugin into our development IDE. To accomplish this, first fire up IntelliJIDEA IDE on your local machine. Once fired up, click the Import Project navigation icon from the Quick Start panel, and navigate to the helloJenkins project we created earlier using hpi:create command. This flow is shown in Figure 10-5:

Figure 10-5: Importing a POM from IntelliJ IDEA

Upon clicking the OK button shown in the previous dialog, IntelliJ...