You're reading from Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins An end-to-end guide to creating operational, secure, resilient, and cost-effective CI/CD processes

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835087732

Length 396 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

Jenkins

Concepts

Continuous Integration

Author (1):

Nikhil Pathania

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: The Concepts FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: The What, How, and Why of Continuous Integration

3. Part 2: Engineering the CI Ecosystem

4. Chapter 2: Planning, Deploying, and Maintaining Jenkins

5. Chapter 3: Securing Jenkins

6. Chapter 4: Extending Jenkins

7. Chapter 5: Scaling Jenkins

8. Part 3: Crafting the CI Pipeline

9. Chapter 6: Enhancing Jenkins Pipeline Vocabulary

10. Chapter 7: Crafting AI-Powered Pipeline Code

11. Chapter 8: Setting the Stage for Writing Your First CI Pipeline

12. Chapter 9: Writing Your First CI Pipeline

13. Part 4: Crafting the CD Pipeline

14. Chapter 10: Planning for Continuous Deployment

15. Chapter 11: Writing Your First CD Pipeline

16. Chapter 12: Enhancing Your CI/CD Pipelines

17. Index

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Using Jenkins Credentials

Jenkins collaborates with a multitude of tools to facilitate automation, CI, CD, and more. To ensure smooth integration between Jenkins and these third-party tools, Jenkins offers a dedicated feature called Credentials. This feature allows you to securely manage and configure the necessary authentication details for seamless interaction with external tools. In this section, we will learn about the default credentials provided by Jenkins and their scope.

Types of credentials

To suit various needs, Jenkins provides you with at least five different kinds of credentials to choose from. They are as follows:

Username and password
Secret text
Secret file
SSH username with private key
Certificate

In addition to these, when certain plugins are installed in Jenkins, other types of credentials become available. For example, installing the Jenkins plugin for Kubernetes adds a new credential type: Kubernetes Service Account.

Having...