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Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins - Second Edition

By : Nikhil Pathania
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Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins - Second Edition

By: Nikhil Pathania

Overview of this book

In past few years, agile software development has seen tremendous growth. There is a huge demand for software delivery solutions that are fast yet flexible to numerous amendments. As a result, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) methodologies are gaining popularity. This book starts off by explaining the concepts of CI and its significance in the Agile. Next, you'll learn how to configure and set up Jenkins in many different ways. The book exploits the concept of "pipeline as code" and various other features introduced in the Jenkins 2.x release to their full potential. We also talk in detail about the new Jenkins Blue Ocean interface and the features that help to quickly and easily create a CI pipeline. Then we dive into the various features offered by Jenkins one by one, exploiting them for CI and CD. Jenkins' core functionality and flexibility allows it to fit in a variety of environments and can help streamline the development process for all stakeholders. Next, you'll be introduced to CD and will learn how 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 CI and CD using Jenkins.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Jenkins pipeline syntax utility


The Jenkins pipeline syntax utility is a quick and easy way to create pipeline code. The pipeline syntax utility is available inside the Jenkins pipeline job; see the screenshot: The pipeline section in the Creating a Jenkins pipeline job section.

In this section, we will recreate the pipeline that we created in the previous section, but this time using the pipeline syntax utility.

Prerequisite

Before we begin, make sure you have the following things ready:

  • The Maven tool configured inside the Global Tool Configuration page (refer to the The Global Tool Configuration page section)
  • Install Pipeline Maven Integration Plugin 
  • The Java tool is also needed to build the Maven project, but since we are building our code on Jenkins master (which already has Java JDK), we can skip installing the Java tool

Installing the Pipeline Maven Integration Plugin

Follow the given steps to install the Pipeline Maven Integration Plugin. The following plugin will allow us to use the Maven...