Jenkins hello world

Everything in the entire IT world starts from the Hello World example.

Let's follow this rule and see the steps to create the first Jenkins pipeline:

1. Click on New Item.
2. Enter hello world as the item name, choose Pipeline, and click on OK.
3. There are a lot of options. We will skip them for now and go directly to the Pipeline section.
4. There, in the Script textbox, we can enter the pipeline script:

      pipeline {
           agent any
           stages {
                stage("Hello") {
                     steps {
                          echo 'Hello World'
                     }
                }
           }
      }

5.  Click on Save.
6.  Click on Build Now.

We should see #1 under the Build History. If we click on it, and then on Console Output, we will see the log from the Pipeline build.

We have just seen the first example and its successful output means that Jenkins is installed correctly. Now, let's move to slightly more advanced Jenkins configuration.

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