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Jenkins has a backup plugin that can be used to back up critical configuration settings related to Jenkins. Follow the steps given below to have a backup in place. Step…

In Jenkins, you have the ability to set up users and their relevant permissions on the Jenkins instance. By default, you will not want everyone to be able to define…

To get the list of all plugins available within Jenkins, one can visit the link − https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Plugins We’ve already seen many instances for installing plugins, let’s look at some other maintenance…

Jenkins provides good support for providing continuous deployment and delivery. If you look at the flow of any software development through deployment, it will be as shown below. The main…

The following are some of the basic activities you will carry out, some of which are best practices for Jenkins server maintenance URL Options The following commands when appended to…

There are various plugins that are available in Jenkins to showcase metrics for builds that are carried out over a period of time. These metrics are useful to understand your…

There are many plugins available that can be used to transfer the build files after a successful build to the respective application/webserver. An example is the “Deploy to container Plugin”.…

Sometimes many build machines are required if there are instances wherein there are larger and heavier projects which get built on a regular basis. And running all of these builds…

Jenkins has a host of Code Analysis plugins. The various plugins can be found at https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Static+Code+Analysis+Plugins This plugin provides utilities for the static code analysis plugins. Jenkins can parse the results…

As demonstrated in the earlier section, there are many reporting plugins available with the simplest one being the reports available for jUnit tests. In the Post-build action for any job,…