Jenkins Pipelines and Deployments
Summary: in this tutorial, you will learn use jenkins pipelines to automate builds, tests, and deployments with declarative configuration and artifact management.
Jenkins Pipelines and Deployments
Jenkins pipelines define your automation workflow in code.
Declarative pipeline example
Create a Jenkinsfile in your repository:
pipeline {
agent any
stages {
stage('Checkout') {
steps {
checkout scm
}
}
stage('Build') {
steps {
sh 'make build'
}
}
stage('Test') {
steps {
sh 'make test'
}
}
stage('Deploy') {
steps {
sh 'echo "Deploying application..."'
}
}
}
}Environment variables and credentials
Use credentials and environment variables securely:
environment {
DEPLOY_ENV = 'staging'
}
withCredentials([string(credentialsId: 'DEPLOY_TOKEN', variable: 'TOKEN')]) {
sh 'deploy-script --token=$TOKEN'
}Artifact handling
Store build outputs as artifacts:
post {
success {
archiveArtifacts artifacts: 'build/*.zip', fingerprint: true
}
}Deploy safely
Use pipeline stages to gate deployment:
- Build
- Test
- Approval
- Deploy
This makes deployments predictable and easy to troubleshoot.
Next steps
Once your pipeline works locally, add notifications, parallel stages, and environment-specific logic. Jenkins pipelines let you automate the full software delivery lifecycle.
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