Creating a nice visual flow for the Continuous Delivery pipeline

Our pipeline to perform the Continuous Delivery now contains the following Jenkins jobs:

• Poll_Build_StaticCodeAnalysis_IntegrationTest_Integration_Branch

• Upload_Package_To_Artifactory

• Deploy_Artifact_To_Testing_Server

• User_Acceptance_Test

• Performance_Testing

In this section, we will create a view inside the Jenkins dashboard using the delivery pipeline plugin. This view is nothing but a nice way of presenting the Continuous Delivery flow:

1. Go to the Jenkins dashboard and click on the + tab highlighted in the screenshot:

   

2. Provide Continuous Delivery Pipeline as the View name and select Delivery Pipeline View from the options, as shown in the next screenshot.

3. Click on OK to finish:

   

4. Now, you will see a lot of options and blanks to fill in. Scroll down until you see the View settings section and fill it in as follows:

   • Select the Number of pipeline instances per pipeline = 0

   • Number of columns = 1

   • Update interval = 1

   • Also, check...