For all the people who do not know what jenkins is , let me explain it to you

Jenkins is a CI/CD tool that you can use on any project of yours or your companies to make your lives a little easier .
What it does for you is a whole lot of things
just for example

• lets just say you want that whenever a team member pushes anything to a specific branch of your project all unit and integration tests should run first hand .

You can do that with jenkins .

• You want that everytime a push is made to the repo it gets re build , jenkins got you .

CI/CD is very powerful tool for any developer to have in this era and there are many tools that let you do this , Jenkins being one of them.

Ok , so now you understood what jenkins is , lets just use it in our project and try to create a pipeline.

• Go ahead and download jenkins.
• Once downloaded go to the directory using your terminal
• once inside the terminal , type the command Java -jar jenkins.war
• This will start the jenkins on localhost:8080 and will also give you the password autogenerated
• copy this password and go to localhost:8080 and you will be greeted by this screen
• Use the password you just copied from the terminal here
• If you want you can also create a user (we are not going to do that here).
• so every thing set up this page will appear in front of you(you wont be having the multitesting in front of you )
• Here what you can do is click on new item and this screen will be visible to you
• Here give your project a name and click on multipipeline and click ok
• You will be greeted with a new screen here , that has a bunch of options to configure but what we want is we want to hook it up with our github repo . So first of all create a create a new github repo and make sure you create a file namely Jenkinsfile in it .
• Inside that file paste this code

pipeline {
    agent any

    stages {
        stage('Build') {
            steps {
                echo 'Building..'
            }
        }
        stage('Test') {
            steps {
                echo 'Testing..'
            }
        }
        stage('Deploy') {
            steps {
                echo 'Deploying....'
            }
        }
    }
}

• Once this is done take the https github url from the clone like this
• Ok perfect , now go back to your jenkins local host and from all those options find Branches > Click on Add Source and click on git

• Now paste your github url that you copied over here like this
  

• perfect 👌 , now click on save .

  What it will do is it will scan your branches by itself and run the tests for you .

• By this point of time you are basically done but just to make it a little interesting what you can do is push anything to your code base and then come to your github and click on scan multibranch pipeline now .
  This will force it to rescan the code and in any branch where it see the change it will re build that branch (On a real life scenario you dont have to do it manually , it will do it yourself via a github hook that will be made inside of the github , but since its on localhost git hub wont allow that )

Ok perfect you are done and can go ahead and learn more about the code in the jenkins file here .
You can do a lot of cool stuff with it , run cron jobs , run tests etc which is outside of the scope of this tutorial.

Ok , i hope you guys have learnt anything new from this tutorial .
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