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Jenkins Essentials - Second Edition

By : Mitesh Soni
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Jenkins Essentials - Second Edition

By: Mitesh Soni

Overview of this book

<p>In agile development practices, developers need to integrate their work frequently to fix bugs or to create a new feature or functionality. Jenkins is used specifically for Continuous Integration, helping to enforce the principles of agile development. This book focuses on the latest and stable release of Jenkins (2.5 and later), featuring the latest features, such as Pipeline as Code, the new setup experience, and the improved UI. With the all-new Pipeline as Code feature, you will be able to build simple or advanced pipelines easily and rapidly, hence improving your teams' productivity.</p> <p>This book begins by tackling the installation of the necessary software dependencies and libraries you'll need to perform Continuous Integration for a Java application. From there, you'll integrate code repositories, applications, and build tools for the implementation of Continuous Integration.</p> <p>Finally, you will also learn how to automate your deployment on cloud platforms such as AWS and Microsoft Azure, along with a few advanced testing techniques.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Chapter 2. Installation and Configuration of Code Repository and Build Tools

We have seen the CI/CD pipeline in the previous chapter, where source code repositories and automated build were discussed in detail. SVN, Git, CVS, and StarTeam are some of the popular code repositories that manage changes to code, artifacts, or documents while Ant and Maven are popular build automation tools for Java applications.

This chapter describes in detail how to prepare an environment for application life cycle management and configure it with Jenkins an open source Continuous Integration (CI) tool. It will cover how to integrate Eclipse and Jenkins so builds can be run from Eclipse as well. These are the major points that we will cover in this chapter:

  • Overview of Jenkins
  • Installing Java and configuring environment variables
  • Installing and configuring Ant
  • Installing Maven
  • Configuring Ant, Maven, and JDK in Jenkins
  • Overview of GitHub
  • Creating a new build job in Jenkins with GitHub
  • Eclipse and Jenkins integration...