Jenkins Project Types

• Free Style
• Pipeline
• Maven Project
• Multi Configuration:
  • For building projects which have different configurations for different environments such as linux, windows, mac etc
• Multi branch:
  • This is used for project where we have different branches and each branch has different pipeline.

Multi Branch Demo

• Lets push all the branches after creating 4 branches
  
• Create a new multi branch project for spring petclinic
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• We have pushed the changes to multibranch pipeline
  
• Every language has some extra folders generated which might not be required in the git repository.
• For the git to ignore these we create a .gitignore and add the patterns to exclude from git
• Refer Here for online generator
• Terraform generates some additional folders like .terraform which needs to be ignored, lets view at .gitignore of terraform

# Created by https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/terraform
# Edit at https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore?templates=terraform

### Terraform ###
# Local .terraform directories
**/.terraform/*

# .tfstate files
*.tfstate
*.tfstate.*

# Crash log files
crash.log
crash.*.log

# Exclude all .tfvars files, which are likely to contain sensitive data, such as
# password, private keys, and other secrets. These should not be part of version
# control as they are data points which are potentially sensitive and subject
# to change depending on the environment.
*.tfvars
*.tfvars.json

# Ignore override files as they are usually used to override resources locally and so
# are not checked in
override.tf
override.tf.json
*_override.tf
*_override.tf.json

# Include override files you do wish to add to version control using negated pattern
# !example_override.tf

# Include tfplan files to ignore the plan output of command: terraform plan -out=tfplan
# example: *tfplan*

# Ignore CLI configuration files
.terraformrc
terraform.rc

# End of https://www.toptal.com/developers/gitignore/api/terraform

Git Tags

• Branch and Tags are reference objects in Git
• Branch points to a commit which changes (generally points to latest commit). Git Tag points to a commit which represents something to be recorded (beta release, customer release)
• Tags are widely used to represent releases
• Lets create and push tag
  
  
• Refer Here to know more on tags