A Getting Started Guide to Setting Up Jenkins
Blog post from Sauce Labs
The article provides a getting started guide to setting up Jenkins, a flexible and open-source CI server. It emphasizes the importance of planning the CI architecture carefully, considering factors such as tech stacks, goals, and infrastructure. The guide covers key steps including determining the goals for the CI pipeline, configuring the Jenkins CI/CD infrastructure, treating configuration like code, choosing plugins carefully, utilizing a configuration management tool, using a repository for CI artifacts, setting up a backup Jenkins CI server, customizing the Jenkins master server, adding and configuring nodes, working with the Swarm plugin, storing build results and reports, and creating a CI pipeline. The guide aims to help development teams configure Jenkins and optimize their newly deployed CI infrastructure.