Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins - Second Edition

Steps

Steps are the fundamental elements that make up the Declarative Pipeline. A step could be a batch script or a shell script, or any other command that's executable. Steps have various purposes, such as cloning a repository, building code, running tests, uploading artifacts to the repository server, performing static code analysis, and so on. In the upcoming section, we will see how to generate steps using the Jenkins pipeline syntax utility.

The following gives more information about the stage block:

• Defines:  It tells Jenkins what to do
• Constituents: Commands, scripts, and so on. It's the fundamental block of a pipeline
• Required: No. But every CI/CD pipeline has it
• Parameters: None

The following is the pipeline code that we used earlier. ...