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Jenkins Essentials - Second Edition

By : Mitesh Soni
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Jenkins Essentials - Second Edition

By: Mitesh Soni

Overview of this book

<p>In agile development practices, developers need to integrate their work frequently to fix bugs or to create a new feature or functionality. Jenkins is used specifically for Continuous Integration, helping to enforce the principles of agile development. This book focuses on the latest and stable release of Jenkins (2.5 and later), featuring the latest features, such as Pipeline as Code, the new setup experience, and the improved UI. With the all-new Pipeline as Code feature, you will be able to build simple or advanced pipelines easily and rapidly, hence improving your teams' productivity.</p> <p>This book begins by tackling the installation of the necessary software dependencies and libraries you'll need to perform Continuous Integration for a Java application. From there, you'll integrate code repositories, applications, and build tools for the implementation of Continuous Integration.</p> <p>Finally, you will also learn how to automate your deployment on cloud platforms such as AWS and Microsoft Azure, along with a few advanced testing techniques.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Installing and configuring Ant


Ant is a build tool. Download Ant from https://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi and unzip it.

Configuring Ant in Windows

The following are the steps to configure Ant in CentOS:

  1. Go to Control Panel | All Control Panel Items | System and click on Advanced system settings | Advanced | Environment Variables....
  2. Click on New.
  3. Set the variable name as ANT_HOME and location and click OK.

Configuring Ant in CentOS

Set the ANT_HOME and JAVA_HOME environment variables:

There is an option available in Jenkins to install Ant or Maven automatically. We will see this in the Jenkins configuration section.