December 2017
Beginner to intermediate
362 pages
8h 35m
English
Before we run the pipeline, it is important that we take a look at the Global Tool Configuration page in Jenkins. This is the place where you configure tools that you think will be used globally across all your pipelines: for example, Java, Maven, Git, and so on.
Let's say you have multiple build agents (Jenkins slave agents) that build your Java code, and your build pipeline requires Java JDK, Maven, and Git. All you need to do is configure these tools inside the Global Tool Configuration, and Jenkins will automatically summon them while building your code on the build agents (Jenkins slave agents). There is no need for you to install these tools on any of the build agents.
Let us configure the Maven tool ...
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