Creating the CI pipeline

In this section, we will learn how to create the CI pipeline discussed in the previous section. We will perform the following steps:

• We will create a source code repository in GitHub
• We will create a Jenkinsfile to describe the way we build, unit test, perform static code analysis, integration test, and publish built artifacts to Artifactory
• We will utilize Docker to spawn build agents to run our CI pipeline
• We will create a Multibranch Pipeline in Jenkins

It is important that you have configured the Configuring Webhooks on GitHub from Jenkins section from Chapter 3, The New Jenkins.

Creating a new repository on GitHub

Let us create a new repository on GitHub. Make sure you have Git installed on the machine that you will use to perform the steps mentioned in the following section:

1. Log in to your GitHub account.
2. In this chapter, we will use the source code from https://github.com/nikhilpathania/hello-world-greeting.git as an example.
3. Try to fork the repository mentioned in...