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You're reading from Jenkins 2.x Continuous Integration Cookbook Over 90 recipes to produce great results using pro-level practices, techniques, and solutions

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788297943

Length 438 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Jenkins

Concepts

Continuous Integration

Authors (2):

Alan Mark Berg

Mitesh Soni

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started with Jenkins FREE CHAPTER

2. Management and Monitoring of Jenkins

3. Managing Security

4. Improving Code Quality

5. Building Applications in Jenkins

6. Continuous Delivery

7. Continuous Testing

8. Orchestration

9. Jenkins UI Customization

10. Processes that Improve Quality

Manipulating environmental variables

This recipe shows you how to pass variables from Jenkins to your build job, and how different variables are overwritten. It also describes one way of failing the build if crucial information has not been correctly passed.

In a typical development/acceptance/production environment, you will want to keep the same pom.xml files, but pass different configurations. One example is the extension names of property files such as .dev, .acc, and .prd. You would want to fail the build if critical configuration values are missing due to human error.

Jenkins has a number of plugins for passing information to builds, including the EnvFile plugin (https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Envfile+Plugin) and the EnvInject plugin (https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/EnvInject+Plugin). The EnvInject plugin was chosen for this recipe as it is reported...

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Authors (2)

Mitesh Soni

Mitesh Soni has 8 years of experience in managing software for GNU/Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems in production environment. He started working as a professional with DevOps from 2013 and has worked on several live projects related to DevOps. https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessiogarofalo

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Berg

Alan Mark Berg, BSc, MSc, PGCE, has been the lead developer at Central Computer Services at the University of Amsterdam since 1998. He is currently working in an Innovation Work Group that accelerates the creation of new and exciting services. In his famously scarce spare time, he writes. Alan has a bachelor's degree, two master's degrees, a teaching qualification, and quality assurance certifications. He has also coauthored two Packt Publishing books about Sakai , a highly successful open source learning management platform used by millions of students around the world. He has won a couple of awards, including the Sakai Fellowship and Teaching With Sakai Innovation Award (TWSIA). Alan enjoys working with talent; this forces him to improve his own competencies. This motivation is why Alan enjoys working in energetic, open source communities of interest. At the time of writing, he is on the board of directors of the Apereo Foundation and is the community officer for its Learning Analytics Initiative.In previous incarnations, Alan was a QA director, a technical writer, an Internet/Linux course writer, a product line development officer, and a teacher. He likes to get his hands dirty with building, gluing systems, exploring data, and turning it into actionable information. He remains agile by ruining various development and acceptance environments and generally rampaging through the green fields of technological opportunity.

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