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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

More about the active Jenkins slave


In the following section, we will take a look at the various other configurable options available to us for the Jenkins slave agent that we have just added. Jenkins also provides a lot of general information about its slaves that we will see here. Follow these steps:

  1. From the Jenkins dashboard, click on Manage Jenkins | Manage Nodes.
  2. On the right-hand side you will also see a table showing the list of available Jenkins slaves. New to the list will be our newly added Jenkins slave.
  3. Click on the Jenkins slave name to access its configurations and metadata.
  1. On the resultant page (Jenkins slave Status page), on the left-hand side menu you will see a few options, as shown in the following screenshot:

Jenkins slave page

  1. Most of the preceding links (from the preceding screenshot) are self-explanatory. However, let's look at some of them in detail.
  2. The Log link is where you will find all the logs with respect to the Jenkins slave. After adding a Jenkins slave, if it...