From the course: Learning Jenkins: Automating Software Development and System Administration
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The Jenkins user interface - Jenkins Tutorial
From the course: Learning Jenkins: Automating Software Development and System Administration
The Jenkins user interface
- [Instructor] I'm logged into a freshly installed Jenkins server, and I want to highlight some of the menus we'll be interacting with in this course. The New Item link here on the left will be the link that you use the most. Follow this link to create jobs or other resources. Next up is the Manage Jenkins link. This menu gives you access to various configurations for your Jenkins server. There's a lot here, and I just want to highlight a couple of them. On a new installation, you might see a notification telling you that building on a controller node can be a security issue. You can safely dismiss this message for now, since we're just getting started on learning how to work with Jenkins. Okay, with that out of the way, I want to focus on just two of the menus here, Tools and Plugins. We'll be using the tool configuration to install external programs that Jenkins can use across all jobs, and we'll be using the manage plugins menu to update the plugins already installed or to install…