Installing, configuring, and testing a Jenkins CI server

Setting up a Jenkins server is a broad topic beyond the scope of this chapter. A good way, however, to get started on your local computer is to go to http://jenkins-ci.org/ and download one of the prebuilt installations for your operating system.

In this case, I used the Mac pkg file download. Select the most common plugins during the installation process, as this includes the Pipeline feature and Groovy programming language integration previously described. After installation, I was able to navigate to http://localhost:8080 to find Jenkins waiting for me, as shown here:

Jenkins has ...

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