Demystifying Declarative Pipeline through a practical example

Let's take a look at a Jenkinsfile.orig which we'll use as a base to generate Jenkinsfile that will contain the correct address of the cluster and the GitHub user.

 1  cat Jenkinsfile.orig

The output is too big for us to explore it in one go, so we'll comment on each section separately. The first in line is the options block.

...
options {
  buildDiscarder logRotator(numToKeepStr: '5')
  disableConcurrentBuilds()
}
...

The first option will result in only the last five builds being preserved in history. Most of the time there is no reason for us to keep all the builds we ever made. The last successful build of a branch is often the only one that matters. We set them to five just to ...

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