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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

Build job-specific monitoring with the Build Monitor plugin


The Build Monitor plugin provides a visualization of the status and progress of selected Jenkins jobs. It displays an updated view automatically every couple of seconds, using AJAX. It can easily accommodate different computer screen sizes as well:

  1. Go to the Manage Jenkins | Manage Plugins | Available tab. Install the Build Monitor View plugin:
  1. Go to the Jenkins dashboard. Click on New View:
  1. Provide a View nameand select Build Monitor View. Click OK:
  1. Select the jobs to be displayed in the newly created Build Monitor View.
  2. Click Save:
  1. Verify the status of the Build Monitor View in the Jenkins dashboard:

In the next section, we will discuss the Audit trail plugin in brief.