How To Get Started With Jenkins

A Beginner’s Guide with an example project

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Jenkins is one of the common tools you would see in any company's DevOps strategy. Pipeline as a code is one of the sought-after skills you need to learn if you are really into DevOps. From building your application to deploying them in different environments, Jenkins can take care of the end-to-end pipeline. You can even design a pipeline for the entire process.

Jenkins uses Domain-specific language based on groovy to define declarative pipelines. In this post, we will see how to get started with Jenkins and other required stuff you need to write pipelines.

• Prerequisites
• Installing Jenkins
• Getting Started
• Example Project
• Configuring Job
• Writing a Jenkins File
• Running Build Pipeline
• Output Logs
• Managing Pipeline
• Deleting Pipeline
• Creating Folders
• Cloning Pipeline
• Summary
• Conclusion

Prerequisites

The only prerequisite for Jenkins to work on your machine is Java. You need to install…