Efficient use of views

Jenkins' addictive ease of lends itself to creating a large number of jobs. This increases the volume of information exposed to developers. Jenkins needs to avoid chaos by utilizing browser space efficiently. One approach is to define minimal views. In this recipe, you will use the DropDownViewsTabBar plugin. It removes views as tabs and replaces the tabs with one select box. This aids in quicker navigation. You will also be shown how to provision lots of jobs quickly using a simple HTML form generated by a script.

Note

In this recipe, you will be creating a large number of views that you may want to delete later. If you are using a virtual box image, consider cloning the image and deleting it after you have finished.

Getting ready

Install the DropDownViewsTabBar plugin (https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/DropDown+ViewsTabBar+Plugin).

How to do it...

1. Copy and paste the Perl script into an file named create.pl:

#!/usr/bin/perl 
$counter=0; 
$end=20; 
$host='http...