Upstream and Downstream projects

• If the project A triggers the Project B then
  • Project B is downstream of Project A
  • Project A is upstream of Project B
    

Parametrized Builds

• While building the jobs, sometimes we would like users to pass some information.
• This is called as parameters
• Lets enable parameters for some jenkins project/job
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Jenkins Environmental variables

• Jenkins injects environmental variables into every job in addition to environmental variables present on node
• To view environmental variables Naviage to build steps => execute shell
  
  
• Refer Here for docs on environmental variables
• Sample using environmetal variables
  
• Result
  

How to take backup of jenkins

• One option for backup of configuration files
  
  
  
  

Which plugin should be installed to monitor jenkins

• Refer Here
  
• Jenkins Plugins can be installed from
  • Market place
  • Uploading the plugin
• Jenkins plugin has two extensions
  • jpi (Jenkins plugin interface)
  • hpi (hudson plugin interface)

Exercise

• Figure out a plugin to chnage Build id
• Create a folder in /tmp of your node with project name

/tmp/gameoflife

• In this folder try to create one more folder with build id

/tmp/gameoflife/5

• to this folder copy the war/jar file