Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins

Pipeline syntax

We have discussed the pipeline elements and already used a few of the pipeline steps, for example, echo. What other operations can we use inside the pipeline definition?

In this book, we use the declarative syntax that is recommended for all new projects. The different options are Groovy-based DSL and (prior to Jenkins 2) XML (created via the web interface).

The declarative syntax was designed to make it as simple as possible to understand the pipeline, even by the people who do not write code on a daily basis. This is why the syntax is limited only to the most important keywords.

Let's prepare an experiment and, before we describe all the details, read the following pipeline definition and try to guess what it does:

pipeline ...