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Install and Configure Jenkins - Part 2

In this lab, you’ll practice the basics of Jenkins. When you’re finished, you’ll have the skills necessary to run and configure Jenkins.

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Level
Clock icon Beginner
Duration
Clock icon 1h 15m
Published
Clock icon Sep 03, 2024

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Getting Started in the Lab Environment

    Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!

  2. Challenge

    Restart Jenkins

    Jenkins often needs to be restarted to enable plugins, and to refresh other application states. This challenge will teach you three ways to restart Jenkins.

  3. Challenge

    Learn the Jenkins File System

    Understanding how Jenkins uses the file system can be very useful for debugging problems. This challenge will illustrate several keys folders that Jenkins uses, and how it uses them.

  4. Challenge

    Work with Pipeline Builds

    Pipeline builds are the preferred way of creating and maintaining builds in Jenkins–in this challenge, you’ll create a simple pipeline build and see how it works.

Chris B. Behrens is a writer, speaker and software developer, specializing in DevOps. He has been a developer and architect for more than twenty years focusing on small to medium size companies and the development changes they face.

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