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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

Adding Jenkins slaves – standalone Linux machine/VMs


In the following section, we will try to add a standalone Linux machine as a Jenkins slave. Make sure you have Java installed on your soon-to-be Jenkins slave machine. Follow the given steps:

  1. From the Jenkins dashboard, click on Manage Jenkins | Manage Nodes.
  2. From the left-hand side menu, click on New Node. On the resultant page you will be asked to provide a name for your node and choose the type, as shown in the following screenshot:

Adding a name and choosing the agent type (type of slave)

  1. Add a meaningful name under the Node name field and choose the agent type. For now, there is only one type of agent to choose from: that is, Permanent Agent. These are the types of agents that are mainly physical machines and VMs.
  2. Click on the OK button to proceed.
  1. On the resultant page, you will see the following options to configure, as shown in the following screenshot:

Jenkins slave configuration

Let's see them one by one:

  1. We already used the Name field...