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You're reading from Jenkins 2.x Continuous Integration Cookbook Over 90 recipes to produce great results using pro-level practices, techniques, and solutions

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788297943

Length 438 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Jenkins

Concepts

Continuous Integration

Authors (2):

Mitesh Soni

Berg

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

Foreword

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Dedication

Preface

1. Getting Started with Jenkins FREE CHAPTER

2. Management and Monitoring of Jenkins

3. Managing Security

4. Improving Code Quality

5. Building Applications in Jenkins

6. Continuous Delivery

7. Continuous Testing

8. Orchestration

9. Jenkins UI Customization

10. Processes that Improve Quality

Configuring global settings in Jenkins

Configure system is the place where settings can be done, and it is useful. You can configure SMTP server details, SonarQube server details, variables, and so on.

Getting ready

To configure global settings and paths, we need to go to Configure System in the Jenkins dashboard.

How to do it...

Go to the Jenkins dashboard.
Click on Manage Jenkins.
Click on Configure System.
Verify the Home directory available:

In the Configure System page, we can define Environment variables too so that it can be used during the execution of build jobs.
For example, we can the ANDROID SDK path in Environment variables in to set Continuous Integration for Android Apps.

Another important configuration available on the same page is Jenkins Location. You can specify the HTTP address of the Jenkins installation, as Jenkins cannot reliably detect such a Jenkins URL from within itself:

There's more...

There are some important configurations that you need to do here in the Configure System section, such as SCM Polling, E-mail Notification, Extended E-mail Notification, Git plugin, Disk usage, Quality Gates - SonarQube, Build Pipeline Plugin, Copyartifact: Upstream build that triggered this job, Audit Trail, SonarQube servers, and so on.