Jenkins overview & installation

Jenkins is an automation server.

We can use it to automate almost anything we need or want.

• Continuous integration jobs
• Continuous delivery jobs
• Ad-hoc jobs

Jenkins installer can be found for:

• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• macOS
• WAR files
• Windows

Single ad-hoc jobs

• Freestyle
• Pipeline (declarative)
• Pipeline from a git repository
• Multi-branch pipeline

Secrets management

Stores sensitive information:

• SSH Keys
• Certificates
• Passwords, Tokens

Jenkins slaves

• Static slave
• Global configuration tool
• AWS EC2 Auto-provisioning slaves
• Slack notifications

Jenkins pipelines

• Scripted vs Declarative

Questions & Answers

• Time for questions!