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Jenkins 2.x Continuous Integration Cookbook

You're reading from   Jenkins 2.x Continuous Integration Cookbook Over 90 recipes to produce great results using pro-level practices, techniques, and solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788297943
Length 438 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Alan Mark Berg Alan Mark Berg
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Mitesh Soni Mitesh Soni
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Jenkins FREE CHAPTER 2. Management and Monitoring of Jenkins 3. Managing Security 4. Improving Code Quality 5. Building Applications in Jenkins 6. Continuous Delivery 7. Continuous Testing 8. Orchestration 9. Jenkins UI Customization 10. Processes that Improve Quality

Manipulating environmental variables

This recipe shows you how to pass variables from Jenkins to your build job, and how different variables are overwritten. It also describes one way of failing the build if crucial information has not been correctly passed.

In a typical development/acceptance/production environment, you will want to keep the same pom.xml files, but pass different configurations. One example is the extension names of property files such as .dev, .acc, and .prd. You would want to fail the build if critical configuration values are missing due to human error.

Jenkins has a number of plugins for passing information to builds, including the EnvFile plugin (https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Envfile+Plugin) and the EnvInject plugin (https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/EnvInject+Plugin). The EnvInject plugin was chosen for this recipe as it is reported...

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