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
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Refer Here
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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
