Building Applications with Freestyle Jobs

Anatomy of the Build

• Git repo
  • Compile
  • Test
  • Package
  • Clean
  • rinse & repeat

Manually Building with Maven and Running App

git clone git@github.com:CalebSargeant/jgsu-spring-petclinic.git --config core.sshCommand="ssh -i ~/.ssh/github"
cd jgsu-spring-petclinic
./mvnw compile
./mvnw test
./mvnw package
java -jar target/spring-petclinic-2.3.1.BUILD-SNAPSHOT.jar

Packaging an App in Jenkins

Note

Workspaces are temporary!


Give your item a name


Input the repo url, ensure branch is correct (main vs master)


To build a project, click Build now


You can use mvnw commands for building


We'll want to package our app, also exclude *.jar from being deleted


You can configure test reports from the xml files


Checking the health status of a build


Configuring polling git for changes to code to build automatically


You can check the recent changes of a build and drill down into git diffs