Maven project to help learn Jenkins.

• Install Jenkins.
  • To install Jenkins. I downloaded it from this link
  • The Jenkins that I installed required a different JDK than the onw I had. I downloaded OpenJDK from RedHat

• Log onto Jenkins
• Click on Manage Jenkins
• Click on Manage Plugins
• Download and install Unleash Maven Plugin if it has not already been installed
• Download and install Maven. If you are using a Windows Computer please download the Binary tar.gz file.
• Extract apache-maven-X.X.X. These 'X's can be any number. They tell the version of maven installed. For me it was 3.6.3 from Binary tar.gz. I used 7zip to do this.
• Click on Manage Jenkins again
• Click on Global Tool Configuration
• Add Maven
• I unchecked Install Automatically and instead directly specified the path to the file, apache-maven-3.6.3, which I extracted from the Maven Binary rar.gz file.

• You can learn how to do that here and here

• Go to your home page in Jenkins. You can do that by clicking Jenkins at around the top left corner of screen

• Click New Item

• Enter your item name and click Maven Project. Please then click ok.

• Check GitHub Project. For the project url type or paste https://github.com/axb157030/JenkinsMaven.git/ or whichever the url is for this git repository.

• For Source Code Management Click the radio button near Git.

• For the Repository Url, type or paste https://github.com/axb157030/JenkinsMaven.git/ or whichever the url is for this git repository.

• For the Branch Specifier, type or past */main

• For the Build Triggers check 'Build whenever a SNAPSHOT dependency is built' and 'GitHub hook trigger for GITScm polling'

• For the build environment please check Delete workspace before build starts

• For the Build, type or paste pom.xml for the Root POM, and for goals and options type clean test.

• Click Save

I hope this helps