Perhaps the single most awesome plugin for Jenkins comes from the Jenkins team itself and changes your Jenkins into something completely different. Jenkins is not the most beautiful and also not always the most intuitive tool you will work with. It is nonetheless a great tool, but it could be even greater. That is where Blue Ocean comes in! Blue Ocean is very new. It went into alpha release last year and went into production while writing this book. So, let that be a warning up front; it probably still has some issues. The good news is that you can run Blue Ocean and the classic Jenkins side by side. So, go to the plugin manager and install Blue Ocean. This will install lots of stuff, such as the GitHub plugin (why though?), Common API For Blue Ocean, REST API For Blue Ocean, Metrics Plugin... About thirty of which most are ... For Blue Ocean.
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