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Mastering Jenkins

By : jmcallister -, Jonathan McAllister
Book Image

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

The Job Execution Configuration panel


The job execution configuration panel provides options to investigate and manage individual job runs. It contains links to see any SCM changes that went into a job run, view the console output of the job run, edit a description note pertaining to a job run, or delete the run entirely from the system. Let's take a minute to look at the individual options available in the job execution configuration panel:

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Title

Description

Back to project

Navigates back to the project status page

Status

Refreshes the job run status page

Changes

Navigates to the recent SCM changes page

Console output

Navigates to the console output of the job

Edit build information

Allows us to specify a small note about the run of the job

Delete build

Deletes the build from the job history