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Jenkins continous Integration tool

What is Continuous Integration ?

Continuous Integration (CI) is a development practice that requires developers to integrate code into a shared repository several times a day. Each check-in is then verified by an automated build, allowing teams to detect problems early.

Many teams find that this approach leads to significantly reduced integration problems and allows a team to develop cohesive software more rapidly. This article is a quick overview of Continuous Integration summarizing the technique and its current usage. 

The main aim of CI is to prevent integration problems, referred to as "integration hell"

A continuous integration server acts as a monitor to the repository. Every time a commit against the repository finishes the server automatically checks out the sources onto the integration machine, initiates a build, and notifies the committer of the result of the build. The committer isn't done until she gets the notification - usually an email.


What is Jenkins ? 

Jenkins is a popular open source tool to perform continuous integration and build automation. The basic functionality of Jenkins is to execute a predefined list of steps, e.g. to compile Java source code and build a JAR from the resulting classes. The trigger for this execution can be time or event based. For example, every 20 minutes or after a new commit in a Git repository.

Environment Set up for Jenkins ?

Jenkins can be installed through native system packages, Docker, or even run standalone by any machine with the Java Runtime Environment installed.

1. In this tutorial we use standalone distribution. TO download the Jenkis click on the given Jenkins link.

2. Go to the directory where you download the Jenkins war file and run the following command-

$ java -jar jenkins.war

After the command is run, various tasks will run, one of which is the extraction of the war file which is done by an embedded webserver called winstone.

Running from: /home/expert/Downloads/jenkins.war
webroot: $user.home/.jenkins
Jul 24, 2017 10:18:48 PM Main deleteWinstoneTempContents

WARNING: Failed to delete the temporary Winstone file /tmp/winstone/jenkins.war
Jul 24, 2017 10:18:48 PM org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.JavaUtilLog info
INFO: Logging initialized @454ms
Jul 24, 2017 10:18:48 PM winstone.Logger logInternal
INFO: Beginning extraction from war file

3. Go to browser and type http://localhost:8080/
an authentication window is opened and it will ask you to enter the user and password.

type user as admin and password for this you get on server machine in the location ${user.home}/.jenkins/secrets/initialAdminPassword


after succesfull authentication you will get the Jenkins dashboard

References
https://jenkins.io/doc/
https://martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html 

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