Jenkins Hello World

Everything in the entire IT world starts with the Hello World example, to show that the basics work fine. Let's follow this rule and use it to create the first Jenkins pipeline:

1. Click on New Item:

2. Enter hello world as the item name, choose Pipeline, and click on OK:

3. There are a lot of options. We will skip them for now and go directly to the Pipeline section:

4. Then, in the Script text-box, we can enter the pipeline script:

pipeline {
     agent any
     stages {
          stage("Hello") {
               steps {
                    echo 'Hello World'
               }
          }
     }
}

5. Click on Save.
6. Click on Build Now:

We should see #1 under the Build History. If we click on it, and then on Console Output, we will see the log from the pipeline build:

You have just seen the first example, and its successful output means that Jenkins...