Jobs in Jenkins

To facilitate the creation of new jobs, the Jenkins platform provides a handy New Item menu link on the main Jenkins dashboard. This link represents the entry point into job creation. In this section of Mastering Jenkins, we will learn the various job types we can create in Jenkins and what makes each project type unique.

Upon clicking on the New Item link from the main dashboard, Jenkins will navigate us to the basic job configuration page where we can define the name of the job and select the appropriate project type. This screenshot illustrates the basic job configuration page we just described:

Jobs in Jenkins

Figure 3-7: New item basic configuration ...

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