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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 8. Managing and Monitoring Jenkins

The management and monitoring of Jenkins is essential, as it is at the core of our automation vision. We can utilize existing Jenkins features or plugins to manage and monitor Jenkins and its jobs effectively.

This chapter gives insight into the management of Jenkins nodes and monitoring them with Java melody to provide details on the utilization of resources. It also covers how to monitor build jobs configured for Java or .NET-related applications, and managing those configurations by keeping backups of them. This chapter describes the basic security configuration available in Jenkins in detail, for better access control and authorization. We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Managing Jenkins Master and Agent nodes
  • Jenkins Monitoring with Java Melody
  • Managing job-specific configurations - backup and restore
  • Managing disk usage
  • Build job-specific monitoring with the Build Monitor plugin
  • The Audit Trail plugin- overview and usage
  • The Workspace...