Jenkins
Jenkins is an open-source automation server for orchestrating configurable software build, test, delivery, deployment, and continuous integration workflows.
Practical Automation with PowerShell: Effective scripting from the console to the cloud
Jenkins is an open-source automation server that orchestrates software delivery and other automated jobs.
- How it is used
- Schedules and manages PowerShell automations while centralizing job access, execution, and credentials.
- How deep it goes
- Explains job execution, environment-variable adaptation, remote-run constraints, and credential reconstruction through a SQL health-check implementation.
- Examples
- Demonstrates scheduled disk-space and log-cleanup scripts plus a SQL health check that can notify through SendGrid.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure Jenkins jobs that run PowerShell scripts and securely supply their parameters and credentials.
Platform Engineering on Kubernetes
Jenkins is an open-source automation server that supports building, testing, and deploying software through configurable jobs and pipelines.
- How it is used
- Automates deployment jobs that select artifact versions, access environment credentials, execute changes, and report results.
- How deep it goes
- Explains Jobs, credentials, parameters, logging, and notifications, while stopping short of Jenkins configuration syntax or pipeline implementation.
- Examples
- Uses a Jenkins Job that deploys selected artifact versions and records its parameters, output, and execution result.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure Jenkins Jobs to automate artifact deployment and inspect recorded execution outcomes.
Read how Platform Engineering on Kubernetes explains Jenkins →
Related concepts
- PowerShelluses · PowerShell is Microsoft's cross-platform command shell and scripting language for administering computer systems and automating tasks.
- environment variableuses · An environment variable is a named value supplied through an operating-system or process environment and made available to programs for runtime configuration or information.
- pipeline enginekind of · A pipeline engine is software that defines, executes, and coordinates automated stages in workflows such as building, testing, packaging, or delivering software.
- agent orchestrationkind of · Orchestration is the coordination and sequencing of agents, services, tasks, or components to carry out a larger workflow or objective.
- deployment pipelinekind of · A sequence of automated or manual stages that builds, tests or validates, packages, and delivers software or models toward deployment.
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