Triggers and notifications

So far, we have always built the pipeline manually by clicking on the Build Now button. It works but is not very convenient. All team members would have to remember that after committing to the repository, they need to open Jenkins and start the build. The same works with pipeline monitoring; so far, we manually opened Jenkins and checked the build status. In this section, we will see how to improve the process so that the pipeline would start automatically and, when completed, notify the team members about its status.

Triggers

An automatic action to start the build is called the pipeline trigger. In Jenkins, there are many options to choose from; however, they all boil down to three types:

• External...