Chapter 4. Managing Views and Jobs in Jenkins

Managing views and jobs in Jenkins is typically a responsibility assigned to the Jenkins administrator. To assist us in this responsibility, our friendly Jenkins concierge features a number of investigative tools that we can leverage to debug any issues that may arise. In this chapter, we will get acquainted with some of the features Jenkins provides to administrators. We will learn to better navigate the Jenkins user interface and also learn how to trace job failures, sleuth slave node outages, and analyze health trends.

Learning to effectively navigate and manage a Jenkins instance is a skill that will be honed over time and generally comes through the experience of doing it. Experience can teach ...

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