Managing Views in Jenkins

Views are represented as tabs in the Jenkins platform on the main dashboard and are positioned at the top of the dashboard. Each tab is the manifestation of a view defined in the Jenkins system. The primary purpose of views is to display an organized subset of the jobs defined. Views can help us organize the jobs within Jenkins by category, state, or regular expression. A relatively new Jenkins installation may not require a structured organizational system but, as the number of jobs grows organically, organizing the jobs by category will become more and more important. In this section of Mastering Jenkins, we will learn how to manage views and discover some tips and tricks we can leverage to optimize our Jenkins installation.

Altering the default "View"

The default behavior of the Jenkins platform is to list all jobs defined in the Jenkins system on the main dashboard. The All tab displays every project currently defined in Jenkins in one all-encompassing list. As...