Overview

Dive deep into Jenkins Blue Ocean and discover how easy creating a pipeline can be. You’ll see how Blue Ocean provides a better user experience when designing, running, and visualizing pipelines. This book shows you its intuitive user interface and its powerful pipeline editor and how this makes it a tool for everyone. Beginning Jenkins Blue Ocean starts with an introduction to Blue Ocean, followed by a step-by-step guide on how to set it up. You’ll learn how to create a pipeline for every branch and pull request on your Git, GitHub, and GitLab repositories. You'll experience the improved pipeline visualization and log diagnosis features in Blue Ocean.  Later you will go beyond the visual pipeline editor to learn the declarative syntax and gain better control over your pipelines. Then, you'll take a look at some tools to enable you to write pipeline code in the declarative syntax. You will also learn to extend delivery pipelines with Jenkins shared libraries. What You Will Learn Discover Jenkins Blue Ocean and how to use it Create elegant pipelines using the visual pipeline editor Work with the declarative pipeline syntax  Use tools that help you write declarative pipeline code  Extend pipelines with Jenkins shared libraries Visualize pipelines from classic Jenkins in Blue Ocean Configure and view test results in Blue Ocean Accurately diagnose pipeline failures using improved pipeline visualization Create multibranch pipeline projects for your Git, GitHub, and GitLab repositories Who This Book Is For Those new to Jenkins who are looking for an easy introduction. The book will also be useful for readers familiar with classic Jenkins and would like to learn Jenkins Blue Ocean.

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Author:   Nikhil Pathania
Publisher:   APress
Imprint:   APress
Edition:   1st ed.
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781484241578

ISBN 10:   1484241576
Pages:   246
Publication Date:   11 December 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: What's New in Jenkins Blue Ocean (20 pages)Chapter Goal: IntroductionSub Topics:    1. Visual Pipeline Editor    2. Pipeline visualization    3. Diagnosis    4. Easy GitHub & Git Integration    5. Personalization Chapter 2: Setting Up Jenkins Blue Ocean (10 pages)Chapter Goal: Installing Jenkins Blue OceanSub Topics:    1. Installing Jenkins    2. Installing the Blue Ocean plugin Chapter 3: Creating Your First Pipeline (30 pages)Chapter Goal: Hands on guide to create a pipeline in Jenkins Blue OceanSub Topics:    1. Creating a repo in GitHub    2. Creating a pipeline in Blue Ocean    3. Visualize your pipeline    4. Activity view    5. Pipeline Run Details view Chapter 4: Jenkinsfile and the Declarative Pipeline Syntax (25 pages)Chapter Goal: Introduction to Jenkinsfile and the pipeline syntaxSub Topics:    1. Elements of declarative pipeline syntax    2. Sections     3. Directives    4. Jenkinsfile Chapter 5: Writing a Jenkinsfile (10 pages)Chapter Goal: tools that will help in writing a jenkinsfileSub Topics:    1. Blue Ocean pipeline editor    2. Declarative directive generator    3. Snippet generator    4. Jenkinsfile plugin for Atom Editor Chapter 6: Where to Go from Here? (25 pages)Chapter Goal: Jenkins Blue Ocean roadmap and next stepsSub Topics:    1. Writing more complex pipelines in Blue Ocean    2. Extending with Jenkins shared libraries    3. Using scripts    4. Upcoming features in Blue Ocean

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Nikhil Pathania is currently practicing DevOps at Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, Denmark. He has been working in the DevOps industry for over ten years. Nikhil started his career in software configuration management as an SCM engineer and later moved on to learn various other tools and technologies in the field of automation and DevOps.  During his career, Nikhil has architected and implemented continuous integration and continuous delivery solutions across diverse IT projects. He enjoys finding new and better ways to automate and improve manual processes. In his spare time, Nikhil likes to read, write, and meditate. He is an avid climber, and now hikes and cycles. You can reach Nikhil on Twitter at @otrekpiko.

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