The Pipeline plugin we installed on our Jenkins node allows us to declare our pipeline directly in the same repository as our code, as a script called a Jenkinsfile. This Jenkinsfile describes the details of our build steps, which can be automatically read by Jenkins to execute our build. We'll begin with a very simple Jenkinsfile that checks to make sure that all of our manifests pass a puppet parser validate:
pipeline { agent any stages { stage('Test') { steps { sh 'find manifests -name *.pp -exec /usr/local/bin/puppet parser validate {} +;' } } }}
This Jenkinsfile describes a pipeline that can be run on any agent (we only have one: our Jenkins node). It has stages, but only a single stage named Test, with a single ...
