Nabil Saoual

Working on Jenkins and Artifactory I often seen options suggesting Maven tool,but what is Maven purpose?How can we use and install it on a Windows system?During this install you may encounter some kind of issues Introduction Maven is a tool that can be used for building and managing any Java-based project ( In our case we will use it on Jenkins ) Maven builds a project using its project object model (POM) and a set…

Hi there, What about keeping up to date your Jenkins 🙂 Such easy to perform that!Today we will check the manual update of our Jenkins master Check if updates are available You can see that a new version is available in the blue info ribbon We got 2 ways to upgrade Jenkins : manually or automatically You can check your current version at the bottom right hand corner of your page Check the changelog Note…

Hi everybody As promised in my previous post on Artifactory plugin here is the installation guide to use Artifactory with your  Jenkins master.First we need to check the prerequisites and then after installation will see how to link it to our Jenkins master. We will use the trial version and also further the open source version. A quick presentation of Artifactory  from Jfrog’s site ( description also available in my previous blog ) prerequisite go…

Hi everybody As I planned to show you how to use Artifactory in next blog topic , we need to install it through plugin management. During this I faced some issues.Below we will check how to fix it. what is an artifact? An artifact is a file produced as a result of a Jenkins build. The name comes from Maven naming conventions A single Jenkins build can produce many artifacts why archiving artifacts? By default,…

Hi everybody, Last time we have seen what is Pipeline concepts including scripted and declarative pipeline methods.Today we will see how to create easily a declarative pipeline using Blue ocean tool.It will allow us to generate a workflow without needing advanced scripting skills. what’s blue ocean? Blue Ocean is graphical user interface making it easier to define continuous delivery pipelines. To build your pipelines you will use an integrated editor. You will be able to…

Hi, We already know how to create a build on Jenkins using freestyle job, it’s a quick way to make a job, but what happened when we want to have complex tasks and workflow to trigger? Freestyle job limitation Indeed ,it’s still possible to chain these builds to get a sophisticated workflow,but freestyle jobs are limited by many ways : -the builds will not survive a restart of Jenkins -freestyle job is only based on…

Hi, As you already know Jenkins architecture is based on master slave architecture.This is useful and best practice to add slave/nodes to Jenkins master for many purposes such as security (avoid malicious code on the master for example and also to spread the charge and preserve Jenkins master performances and health.) some definitions The Jenkins Master is the Jenkins service itself.It is a webserver that also acts as a “brain” for deciding how, when and…