Running Jenkins locally

The following is a screenshot of the main dashboard page of Jenkins. We will go over each item in detail:

Creating a new item

In the following steps, we will create a Freestyle project as a new item, but there could potentially be many more items to add depending on the plugins that are installed:

1. If you click the New Item link, you will go to the following page:

2. We have not installed any plugins, so the only type of item we can use is a Freestyle project.
3. Let's enter a name for the Freestyle project and click OK:

4. You will be presented with the following screen to configure your Freestyle project:

5. Let's create a simple build for Jenkins that prints out Hello World:

6. Make sure...