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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

Installing plugins in Jenkins

Jenkins is an open source server that is widely used and extensible due to more than 400+ plugins. Plugins make Jenkins' integration with other tools very easy. You can your own plugins also.

Getting ready

There are various categories of plugins available, such as Source Code Management, Slave launchers and controllers, Build triggers, Build tools, Build notifies, Build reports, Other Post-build Actions,External site/tool integrations, UI plugins, Authentication user management, development, iOS development, .NET development, Ruby development, Library plugins, and so on.

How to do it...

Go to the Jenkins dashboard. Click on Manage Jenkins and then Manage Plugins:

Go to Available tab select any to install. Click on Install without restart:

Verify the successful installation, as in this next screenshot:

If installation is pending with restart, then restart Jenkins.

How it works...

Once the plugin is installed, a specific block is added in a build job or in the relevant section in Manage Jenkins.

You only need to provide some parameters and credentials for integration of external tools or services with Jenkins.

There's more...

Jenkins defines interfaces or abstract classes that model a facet of a build system. Interfaces or abstract classes define agreement on what needs to be implemented; and Jenkins uses plugins to extend those implementations.