Running Jenkins locally

The following is a screenshot of the main dashboard page of Jenkins. We will go over each item in detail:

Creating a new item

In the following steps, we will create a Freestyle project as a new item, but there could potentially be many more items to add depending on the plugins that are installed:

1. If you click the New Item link, you will go to the following page:

 

2. We have not installed any plugins, so the only type of item we can use is a Freestyle project.
3. Let's enter a name for the Freestyle project and click OK:

4. You will be presented with the following screen to configure your Freestyle project:

 

5. Let's create a simple build for Jenkins that prints out Hello World:

6. Make sure to click the Add build step button and then choose Execute shell.
7. Lastly, click Save and you will go back to the project dashboard screen.
8. Next make sure to click the Build Now button to get a build triggered,and you will see a text popup that says Build Scheduled:

9. Notice that in the following screenshot...