Beginning Jenkins Blue Ocean: Create Elegant Pipelines With Ease

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Nikhil PathaniaBeginning Jenkins Blue Oceanhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4158-5_4

4. Declarative Pipeline Syntax

Nikhil Pathania¹ 

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Brande, Denmark

 

Creating Pipelines using the Visual Pipeline Editor is quick and convenient. However, to get more control over your Pipelines, it is necessary to understand the underlying Pipeline code.

Before Jenkins Blue Ocean’s Visual Pipeline Editor, Pipeline code was and is still widely written using a keyboard (coding). It is therefore essential to take a look at the components that make up the Pipeline code.

You’ll learn more about the Pipeline code shortly. However, let me tell you in advance that the Pipeline code follows a declarative or an imperative coding style, and the following ...