Dive deep into Jenkins Blue Ocean and discover how easy creating a pipeline can be. You'll see how Blue Ocean provides a better user experience when designing, running, and visualizing pipelines. This book shows you its intuitive user interface and its powerful pipeline editor and how this makes it a tool for everyone.

Beginning Jenkins Blue Ocean starts with an introduction to Blue Ocean, followed by a step-by-step guide on how to set it up. You'll learn how to create a pipeline for every branch and pull request on your Git, GitHub, and GitLab repositories. You'll experience the improved pipeline visualization and log diagnosis features in Blue Ocean.

Later you will go beyond the visual pipeline editor to learn the declarative syntax and gain better control over your pipelines. Then, you'll take a look at some tools to enable you to write pipeline code in the declarative syntax. You will also learn to extenddelivery pipelines with Jenkins shared libraries.

You will:

Nikhil Pathania is currently practicing DevOps at Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, Denmark. He has been working in the DevOps industry for over ten years. Nikhil started his career in software configuration management as an SCM engineer and later moved on to learn various other tools and technologies in the field of automation and DevOps. 

During his career, Nikhil has architected and implemented continuous integration and continuous delivery solutions across diverse IT projects. He enjoys finding new and better ways to automate and improve manual processes.

In his spare time, Nikhil likes to read, write, and meditate. He is an avid climber, and now hikes and cycles.

You can reach Nikhil on Twitter at @otrekpiko.

Chapter 1: What's New in Jenkins Blue Ocean (20 pages)

Chapter Goal: Introduction

Sub Topics:

    1. Visual Pipeline Editor

    2. Pipeline visualization

    3. Diagnosis

    4. Easy GitHub & Git Integration

    5. Personalization

 

Chapter 2: Setting Up Jenkins Blue Ocean (10 pages)

Chapter Goal: Installing Jenkins Blue Ocean

Sub Topics:

    1. Installing Jenkins

    2. Installing the Blue Ocean plugin

Chapter 3: Creating Your First Pipeline (30 pages)

Chapter Goal: Hands on guide to create a pipeline in Jenkins Blue Ocean

Sub Topics:

    1. Creating a repo in GitHub

    2. Creating a pipeline in Blue Ocean

    3. Visualize your pipeline

    4. Activity view

    5. Pipeline Run Details view

 

Chapter 4: Jenkinsfile and the Declarative Pipeline Syntax (25 pages)

Chapter Goal: Introduction to Jenkinsfile and the pipeline syntax

Sub Topics:

    1. Elements of declarative pipeline syntax

    2. Sections 

    3. Directives

    4. Jenkinsfile

 

Chapter 5: Writing a Jenkinsfile (10 pages)

Chapter Goal: tools that will help in writing a jenkinsfile

Sub Topics:

    1. Blue Ocean pipeline editor

    2. Declarative directive generator

    3. Snippet generator

    4. Jenkinsfile plugin for Atom Editor

 

Chapter 6: Where to Go from Here? (25 pages)

Chapter Goal: Jenkins Blue Ocean roadmap and next steps

Sub Topics:

    1. Writing more complex pipelines in Blue Ocean

    2. Extending with Jenkins shared libraries

    3. Using scripts

    4. Upcoming features in Blue Ocean