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Mastering Jenkins

Mastering Jenkins

By : jmcallister -, McAllister
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Mastering Jenkins

Mastering Jenkins

4.7 (3)
By: jmcallister -, 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.
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Chapter 3. Creating Views and Jobs in Jenkins

At the heart of the Jenkins platform is the main dashboard, tab based views, and build jobs. In this chapter of Mastering Jenkins, we will dive into creating and organizing jobs and views within the Jenkins system. By mastering these features, we can begin to explore some of the more advanced capabilities Jenkins provides. While reading this chapter, it is a good idea to adopt practices that assist in making your unique configuration more effective and skip over the ones that don't.

 

"Yesterday I was clever and wanted to change the world. Today I learned wisdom and only wish to change myself."

 
 --Rumi

The majority of this chapter will center around understanding the Jenkins dashboard, creating views, and defining jobs

Our objective will be to completely understand these foundational principles so that we can build on them in later chapters, and take our Jenkins implementations to the next level. The topics...

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