The Jenkins dashboard is the place where all the operations related to CI and CD can be managed:
Click on the Manage Jenkins
link on the Jenkins dashboard. Here, we can configure Jenkins
, Security
, Global Tools
, Plugins
, Users
, and more:
Click on Manage Plugins
. You will see the following tabs:
- The
Updates
tab provides details on updates available on the installed plugins. - The
Available
tab provides a list of plugins that are not installed yet. - The
Installed
tab provides a list of plugins that are already installed. - The
Advanced
tab contains sections to configure proxies so we can download plugins even after we are behind the proxy. It also provides sections to upload HPI files for plugins in case we have already downloaded the plugin from the internet:
In the Manage Jenkins
section, click on Manage Nodes
.
By default, the system on which Jenkins is installed is a master node. This is the section that can be utilized to create the master agent architecture that we will cover later in the book:
In the next section, we will cover different kinds of configuration available in the Manage Jenkins
section.