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Extending Jenkins

By : Donald Simpson
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Extending Jenkins

By: Donald Simpson

Overview of this book

Jenkins CI is the leading open source continuous integration server. It is written in Java and has a wealth of plugins to support the building and testing of virtually any project. Jenkins supports multiple Software Configuration Management tools such as Git, Subversion, and Mercurial. This book explores and explains the many extension points and customizations that Jenkins offers its users, and teaches you how to develop your own Jenkins extensions and plugins. First, you will learn how to adapt Jenkins and leverage its abilities to empower DevOps, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, and Agile projects. Next, you will find out how to reduce the cost of modern software development, increase the quality of deliveries, and thereby reduce the time to market. We will also teach you how to create your own custom plugins using Extension points. Finally, we will show you how to combine everything you learned over the course of the book into one real-world scenario.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Extending Jenkins
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


From the brief introductions and examples in this chapter, we have seen how easily Jenkins can be extended and adapted to work and integrate with other languages and technologies, taking advantage of what they offer and allowing you to set up processes that work the way you want and need them to. Combining Jenkins with other tools enables you to create powerful and flexible build processes for a wide variety of projects and purposes.

Jenkins integrates well with these technologies (and many others), largely due to its inherent flexibility and extensibility, its wealth of plugins, and the vibrant development, support, and user community.

Throughout this book, we have explored many different ways in which Jenkins can be adapted and extended to perform whatever functions you would like, from leveraging APIs, interacting through IDEs, and adapting the user interface to developing your own plugin, creating and using extension points, to embracing and leveraging new and emerging technologies...