Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins - Second Edition

Creating a Jenkins pipeline job

Follow the given steps to create a Jenkins pipeline job:

1. From the Jenkins dashboard, click on the New Item link.
2. On the resultant page, you will be presented with various types of Jenkins jobs to choose from.
3. Choose Pipeline, and give a name to your pipeline using the Enter an item name field.

 

4. Once you are done, click on the OK button at the bottom of the page.
5. All kinds of Jenkins jobs (freestyle, pipeline, multibranch, and so on) now come with a featured tab, as shown in the following screenshot:

The new tab feature in Jenkins jobs

6. We will quickly navigate to the pipeline section by clicking on the ...