In
this article, we are going to learn one of the interesting topics on how to Setup Jenkins Blue Ocean on our Jenkins instance.
Before
moving on the setup part let's understand first.
What is Jenkins Blue Ocean ?
Jenkins
Blue Ocean is designed to change the user experience of existing Jenkins and at
the same time design ground for Jenkins pipeline and freestyle jobs.
Some
of the important feature of Jenkins Blue ocean includes :
- Sophisticated visualizations of continuous delivery (CD) Pipelines, allowing for fast and intuitive comprehension of your Pipeline’s status.
- Pipeline editor-makes the creation of Pipelines approachable by guiding the user through an intuitive and visual process to create a Pipeline.
- Personalization to suit the role-based needs of each member of the team.
- Pinpoint precision when intervention is needed and/or issues arise. Blue Ocean shows where in the pipeline attention is needed, facilitating exception handling and increasing productivity.
- Native
integration for branch and pull requests enables maximum developer
productivity when collaborating on code with others in GitHub and
Bitbucket.
Setting up Jenkins Blue Ocean.
Please
Note one of the important pre-requisite for the setup of Jenkins Blue ocean is that the current Jenkins version should be 2.7.x or above.
To Setup
Jenkins Blue Ocean we need to follow below steps:
1)
Login into Jenkins.
2)
Navigate to Manage Jenkinsร Manage Plugin, under the
available section search for Blue Ocean and install it.
3)
Restart the Jenkins.
4)
We would now be able to see New Jenkins Blue Ocean UI.
5)
To Design New pipeline, Click on New Pipeline option present on
the top of screen.
6)
To Run or disable any Jenkins job we can simply click on Run and
Disable options present on the top of the screen.
7)
To again Switch back to classic view Click on classic icon
at the top of the common section of Blue Ocean’s navigation bar.
