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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

Workspace Cleanup plugin


The Workspace Cleanup plugin is used to delete the workspace from Jenkins before the build, or when a build is finished and artifacts saved. If we want to start a Jenkins build with a clean workspace, or we want to clean a particular directory before each build, then we can effectively use this plugin. Different options are available for deleting workspaces.

Install the plugin from the Jenkins dashboard:

We can apply patterns for files to be deleted based on the status of the build job. We can add post-build actions for workspace deletion:

Note

For more details on the Workspace Cleanup plugin, visit https://plugins.jenkins.io/ws-cleanup.