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_6

6. Working with Shared Libraries

Nikhil Pathania¹ 

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Brande, Denmark

 

The concept of having pipelines as a code brings convenience and handiness in maintaining and designing CI/CD pipelines. I need not speak about its advantages, because by now they are already apparent to you. It all came with Jenkins 2.0 and helped everyone write complex and flexible CI/CD pipelines with ease.

It is a significant improvement over the massive, GUI-based CI/CD pipelines comprised of multiple freestyle pipeline jobs. Blue Ocean further made things better by allowing users to design CI/CD pipeline with ease using its so-called Visual Pipeline Editor. The Declarative ...