In this chapter, we looked at the ways in which the user interface can be altered to suit your requirements. We looked at a few common issues and reviewed some possible approaches that could be used to alleviate them.

As you have seen, the Jenkins user interface is extremely powerful, and much of this power comes from its flexibility and extensibility.

Adapting the Jenkins user interface to address whatever use case applies to your environment can make a massive difference to the success of your Jenkins installation. At the same time, it also makes the user experience much more positive and can guide your users to interact with Jenkins in a mutually beneficial way. When it's easy for people to find what they want and hard for them to make mistakes (for example, due to runtime validation, dynamically populated forms, and automatically-created suites of jobs), you should have happier users and a more robust and efficient Jenkins too.

The in-built functionality of Jenkins can often provide...