Beginning Jenkins Blue Ocean

Learn how to write complex pipelines in Blue Ocean and use Jenkins shared libraries to extend your delivery pipeline. This book teaches you about Jenkins and its Blue Ocean tool and plug-in; starting with an introduction to Blue Ocean, you will go through the Visual Pipeline Editor and pipeline visualizations. You will see how to run a pipeline for every branch and pull request on your Git, GitHub, and GitLab repositories, as well as experience the improved pipeline visualization and log diagnosis features in Jenkins Blue Ocean. After covering tips on diagnostics, you will learn to integrate your pipeline with Git and GitHub and see how to personalize your pipeline. You will then install Blue Ocean and move on to create your first pipeline, with visualizations and activity view. Shifting your focus towards coding, you'll cover declarative pipeline syntax and jenkinsfile. Then, you will take a look at a number of tools to enable you to write jenkinsfile syntax. These will include the Blue Ocean Pipeline Editor and the Declarative Directive Generator. What You Will Learn Discover Jenkins Blue Ocean and how to use it Use the Visual Pipeline Editor and create visualizations using Blue Ocean Integrate visual pipelines with GitHub Write a jenkinsfile using the Blue Ocean Pipeline Editor Extend pipelines with Jenkins shared libraries Visualize classic Jenkins pipelines in Blue Ocean Configure and view test results in Jenkins Blue Ocean 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.