Jenkins — Create First Maven Job
2 min readAug 30, 2020
This post will cover some of the basic aspects of a Maven Job in Jenkins.
Link to Github and let’s start.
Prerequisite
- The following instruction requires a “HelloWorld” Maven project in Github repository.
Create the Jenkins Job
From the browser Dashboard (initial) Jenkins page, click
New ItemEnter an item name
First-Maven-Project
select Freestyle Project and press Ok.
Discard old builds
✅ Discard old build
Select the repository
Github Repo: https://github.com/DaRealPunjabi/mavenapp
Branch: Master
Clean the workspace
✅ Delete workspace before build starts
Configure the build and click Save
Select: Invoke top-level Maven targetsMaven Version(Default): DefaultMaven
Goals: clean package
POM: HelloWorld/pom.xml
Build it
From the browser Project First Job page, click
Build Now
Examine the Job
Click the job, and select console output
Console Output
Test the build
Connect to GCP Jenkins server instance, using SSH run the following command in the terminal
cd /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/First-Maven-Project/HelloWorld/target/
java -jar HelloWorld-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
Hello World!👏 First Maven job created.
