New PDF release: Extending Jenkins

Key Features

• Find out tips on how to engage with Jenkins from inside of Eclipse, NetBeans, and IntelliJ IDEA
• Develop customized suggestions that act upon Jenkins info in genuine time
• A step by step, useful consultant that can assist you find out about extension issues in latest plugins and the way to construct your individual plugin

Book Description

Jenkins CI is the prime open resource non-stop integration server. it's written in Java and has a wealth of plugins to aid the development and checking out of almost any undertaking. Jenkins helps a number of software program Configuration administration instruments resembling Git, Subversion, and Mercurial.

This ebook explores and explains the numerous extension issues and customizations that Jenkins deals its clients, and teaches you the way to strengthen your personal Jenkins extensions and plugins.

First, you are going to easy methods to adapt Jenkins and leverage its talents to empower DevOps, non-stop Integration, non-stop Deployment, and Agile tasks. subsequent, you can find out tips to lessen the price of smooth software program improvement, bring up the standard of deliveries, and thereby decrease the time to marketplace. we'll additionally train you the way to create your personal customized plugins utilizing Extension points.

Finally, we'll assist you mix every thing you discovered over the process the ebook into one real-world scenario.

What you are going to learn

• Retrieve and act upon Jenkins info in genuine time
• Find out how one can have interaction with Jenkins via numerous IDEs
• Develop your personal shape and enter validation and customization
• Explore how Extension issues paintings, and boost your individual Jenkins plugin
• See how you can use the Jenkins API and command-line interface
• Get to understand the right way to remotely replace your Jenkins configuration
• Design and strengthen your personal info Radiator
• Discover how Jenkins customization may also help enhance caliber and decrease costs

About the Author

Donald Simpson is a data know-how advisor established in Scotland, UK.

He makes a speciality of supporting companies increase the standard and decrease the price of software program improvement throughout the adoption of technique automation and Agile methodologies.

Starting out as a Java developer, Donald's curiosity in software servers, networking, and automation led him to a occupation as a construct engineer. He continues to be hugely technical and hands-on and enjoys studying approximately new applied sciences and discovering how you can automate and enhance handbook processes.

He might be reached at www.donaldsimpson.co.uk.

Table of Contents

1. Preparatory Steps
2. Automating the Jenkins UI
3. Jenkins and the IDE
4. The API and the CLI
5. Extension Points
6. Developing your individual Jenkins Plugin
7. Extending Jenkins Plugins
8. Testing and Debugging Jenkins Plugins
9. Putting issues Together