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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

Chapter 4. Configuring Jenkins

In this chapter, we will learn how to perform some basic Jenkins administration tasks, as follows:

  • Updating/installing/uninstalling/downgrading Jenkins plugins
  • Installing Jenkins plugins manually
  • Performing Jenkins backup and restore
  • Upgrading Jenkins on various platforms (Windows/Linux/servlet)
  • Upgrading Jenkins running inside a Docker container
  • Creating and managing users in Jenkins
  • Learning various authentication methods in Jenkins
  • Configuring various authorization methods in Jenkins

Jenkins comes with a pile of items to configure. The more plugins you install, the more there is to configure. In this chapter, we will cover only the basic administrative tasks in Jenkins. We will learn more about the Jenkins configuration in the upcoming chapters, wherein we will try to add up more plugins to Jenkins in order to achieve Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD).