As we all
are Continuous Delivery is process where any code changes made by developers
are automatically build, deploy, tested and can be move to production.
So in Continuous
Delivery feedback and visualization of this delivery process is one of the most
important aspect that needs to be taken care of. So Jenkins Delivery pipeline
plugin provides us the solution to visualize one or more delivery pipelines.
To achieve
this, Delivery plugin required Our Jenkins job to have either upstream/downstream
relationship with other Jenkins Job.
To Setup Delivery Pipeline we need to follow steps:
1) Go to Jenkinsร Manage Jenkinsร Manage Pluginร Install Delivery pipeline Plugin.
2) Now Create a few sample Jenkins Job. In
this blog for explanation purpose I am creating four different Jenkins Job Name
as Build, Deploy, Test and Release. Please make sure all this Jenkins Job is
running individually.
To Know how to Create a Build Job for every code check-in from GIT. Please refer to this link.
To Know how to Deploy the application using Jenkins. Please refer to this link.
To Know how to Create a Test Job and generate the testing report. Please refer to this link.
3) Now inside Build Job, Under post
build Actions, Select Build Other project.
4) Since it’s my first job I need to add
Deploy Job as downstream.
5) Similarly for Deploy job add Test as Downstream job and for Test, Release Job as Downstream.
Once we add
all the Upstream/Downstream Jenkins Job we can view it in Jenkins as well.
Now to create Pipeline in Jenkins we need to follow below steps:
1) In the Jenkins home page, click on
add new View.
2) Provide the name of View and select
Delivery pipeline View and click on OK.
3) Once the view is created under
Pipelines, Click on Add.
4) Provide the name of components and
select initial Job Name.
5) Click on Apply and OK to save the
view.
6) Once View is created we can run this
Jenkins Pipeline from the Run option present on the top and would be able to view
the real-time status of all Jenkins Job during each individual state.
