Jenkins Fundamentals

Copyright and Credits......Page 2
Jenkins Fundamentals......Page 3
Packt Upsell......Page 4
Why subscribe?......Page 5
PacktPub.com......Page 6
Contributors......Page 7
About the Authors......Page 8
Packt is Searching for Authors Like You......Page 9
Preface......Page 13
Who this book is for......Page 14
What this book covers......Page 15
To get the most out of this book......Page 16
Download the example code files......Page 17
Conventions used......Page 18
Get in touch......Page 19
Reviews......Page 20
Installing and Setting up Jenkins......Page 21
Continuous Delivery......Page 22
Installing Jenkins......Page 25
Setting up Jenkins......Page 26
The Jenkins Dashboard......Page 34
User Management......Page 38
User Management......Page 39
Activity: User Management and Security......Page 41
Summary......Page 44
Administering Jenkins......Page 45
Plugin Management......Page 46
Principles of Plugin Usage......Page 50
Administration Plugins......Page 51
User Interface (UI) Plugins......Page 52
Source Code Management (SCM) Plugins......Page 53
Build Management Plugins......Page 54
Setting up Jenkins with Plugins......Page 55
Installing a Sample Plugin......Page 57
Activity: Plugin Management......Page 61
Updating and Upgrading Jenkins......Page 64
Maintenance Windows......Page 65
Host Metrics......Page 67
Retrieving Jenkins Logs and Metrics......Page 68
Memory......Page 70
Improving Memory Management......Page 71
Upgrading our Jenkins Server......Page 72
Checking the Version Release Notes......Page 73
Activity: Upgrades and Updates......Page 76
Configuring Jenkins for Production......Page 79
Evaluating our Jenkins Server......Page 81
Access Points......Page 83
Access Control......Page 84
Testing the Access Control......Page 85
Services and Plugins......Page 87
Summary......Page 88
Jenkins Views and Freestyle Projects......Page 89
Freestyle Projects......Page 91
Setting up Freestyle Projects......Page 92
Setting up the Build......Page 99
Activity: Setting up a Freestyle Project......Page 105
Setting up a View to Manage our Projects......Page 108
Setting up Jenkins Views Privileges......Page 110
Setting up Views......Page 111
Activity: Setting up a View to Manage our Projects......Page 115
Summary......Page 118
Parameterized and Up/Downstream Project......Page 119
Configuring Parameters for Projects......Page 120
Parameterized Projects......Page 121
Creating and Accessing Build Parameters......Page 129
Creating and Accessing String Parameters......Page 130
Activity: Setting up Parameterized Projects and Accessing Parameters......Page 141
Build Triggers......Page 150
Creating Upstream/Downstream Projects......Page 151
Running an Upstream Project......Page 159
Activity: Building a GitHub Project......Page 162
Summary......Page 167
Jenkins Pipelines......Page 168
The CI Workflow......Page 169
Git Branches......Page 171
Setting up our Repository......Page 173
Creating a GitHub Repository and Integrating Jenkins......Page 183
The Jenkinsfile......Page 187
Creating the Pipeline......Page 189
Installing Blue Ocean......Page 193
Creating Multibranch Pipelines......Page 196
Global Variables......Page 197
Building Pull Requests......Page 206
Activity: Creating a Pipeline......Page 208
Summary......Page 214
Distributed Builds on Jenkins......Page 215
Setting up our Slaves......Page 216
Distributed Builds......Page 217
The Master-Slave Model......Page 218
Setting up our Nodes......Page 220
Stopping the Docker Container......Page 224
Verifying Node Connectivity......Page 228
Securely Connecting to the Slaves......Page 230
Adding Slave Nodes......Page 231
Activity: Adding Slave Nodes in Jenkins......Page 237
Configuring Tasks to Run on our Slaves......Page 239
Running Freestyle Projects on a Node......Page 240
Running Pipelines on Different Nodes......Page 245
Spinning Down the Vagrant Environment......Page 250
Activity: Bringing it all Together......Page 252
Summary......Page 260
Other Books You May Enjoy......Page 261
Leave a review - let other readers know what you think......Page 263