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Practical DevOps
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Practical DevOps

by joakim verona
February 2016
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 46m
English
Packt Publishing
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The Jenkins build server

A build server is, in essence, a system that builds software based on various triggers. There are several to choose from. In this book, we will have a look at Jenkins, which is a popular build server written in Java.

Jenkins is a fork of the Hudson build server. Kohsuke Kawaguchi was Hudson's principal contributor, and in 2010, after Oracle acquired Hudson, he continued work on the Jenkins fork. Jenkins is clearly the more successful of the two strains today.

Jenkins has special support for building Java code but is in no way limited to just building Java.

Setting up a basic Jenkins server is not particularly hard at the outset. In Fedora, you can just install it via dnf:

dnf install jenkins

Jenkins is handled as a service ...

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ISBN: 9781785882876