May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
604 pages
13h 56m
English
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Chapter 1. Introducing Jenkins 2
Welcome to Jenkins 2: Up and Running. Whether you’re a build administrator, developer, tester, or any other role, you’ve come to the right place to learn about this evolution in Jenkins. With this book, you’re on your way to leveraging the features of Jenkins 2 to design, implement, and execute your pipelines with a level of flexibility, control, and ease of maintenance that hasn’t been possible with Jenkins before. And, no matter what your role, you’ll quickly see the benefits.
If you’re a developer, writing your pipeline-as-code will feel more comfortable and natural. If you’re a DevOps professional, maintaining your pipeline will be easier because you can treat it like any other set of code that drives key processes. If you’re a tester, you’ll be able to take advantage of increased support for features such as parallelism to gain more leverage for your efforts. If you’re a manager, you’ll be able to ensure the quality of your pipeline as you do for your source code. If you’re a Jenkins user, you’re going to grow your skill base substantially and be ready for this new evolution of “pipelines-as-code.”
Getting to these goals requires understanding and mapping out the transition from your existing implementations. Jenkins 2 represents a significant shift from the older, more traditional, form-based versions of Jenkins. And with such a shift, there’s a lot to learn. But it’s all manageable. As the first step, we need to lay a solid foundation of ...
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