How to create freestyle job in Jenkins - Create freestyle job in Jenkins to automate build and deployment

Configure Jenkins to create freestyle jobs to automate build and deployments.

Pre-requisites:

1. Make sure you configure maven installation under Jenkins-->manage Jenkins-> Global Tool Configuration. under maven installation. enter Maven3 as name, enter path of maven installation --> /usr/share/maven and uncheck install automatically option.

2. Also install SonarQube scanner,  deploy to container,  Jacoco plugins under Jenkins --> Manage Jenkins --> Manage plug-ins

Click on Available, type Sonarqube, select SonarQube scanner. Click on Install without restart.

SonarQube

Deploy to container

JaCoCo

Click on without restart.

steps to automate MyWebApp project in Jenkins:

1. Login to Jenkins. Click on New item.

2. Enter an item name --> select Free style project. enter name as myFirstAutomateJob. click OK.

3. under source code mgmt, click git. enter Bitbucket URL or GitHub, select repo you created from lab exercise # 2, click on Clone or download and select HTTPS Url.

Copy it.

under credentials --> click Add- > select Jenkins -->  enter your GitHub username and password

4. select that from drop down.

5. under build trigger click on poll scm, enter this value to check 

for every 2 mins --> H/02 * * * *

6. Build --> Add build step --> invoke top level maven targets -->

select Maven3 from drop down and goal as clean install

7. Click on advanced, enter the path of POM file as --> MyWebApp/pom.xml

8. add Post build action - select archive the artifacts

enter the below value:(ignore if you get any error in red color)

 **/*.war

there may be some errors in red, but ignore it.

 

 9. click on Add post build action, select Record Jacoco Code coverage report

 

10. click on Add post build action, select deploy war/ear to container

      enter the same value

      **/*.war

in WAR/EAR files, leave context path empty

11. click on Add container , select Tomcat 8.x

12. click on add credentials, enter tomcat as user name and password as password.

      select it from drop down.

 

13. tomcat url should be http://localhost:8090

click Apply, click Save. click on build now..It should build.

After successful deployment, please make sure you check the output in Tomcat by going to browser and enter below URL

http://please_change_per_public_dns_name_of_EC2:8090/MyWebApp

You should see Hello World!!!

This is how you automate the builds and deployments using Jenkins and migrate applications to AWS.

You can watch the video of this lab here: