In this exercise we will create a build monitor to radiate vital build information and statistics
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As a learner you will be able to
- Create dashboards in Jenkins to display build status
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Name of tool - short description and link to docs or website
This exercise begins cluster containing blah blah
The goal of this exercise is to introduce Build Monitors to radiate teams progress on Dashboards.
Create a new Dashboard for our Builds using the plugin above. Use Regex to add jobs to it. Use the BuildFail Analyser to add meaningful data to the reason for failures.
Use the pipeline views in OpenShift and Jenkins to produce dashboards that teams can use.
This is a fairly structured guide with references to exact filenames and sections of text to be added. Include pictures and code snippets where appropriate. Rule of thumb is learners are dumb.... so over describe why we're doing things
In this exercise we will create a new build monitor to show key information about our builds
On Jenkins home page; create a new view by hitting the plus icon on the home screen (should be beside the all
above the jobs list)
Give the job a sensible name such as todolist-monitor
and select Build Monitor View
On the configuration page; select Recurse in subfolders
Check the box to use Regular Expression and set the value to be something that should scrape our apps such as .*todolist.*
Finally; select Display committers
and set the Failure Analyser to Description
. This allows us to write regex for when fails occur in Jenkins and have the reasons plotted on the graph. For example; number of test scores or common compilation errors.
Save your configuration to see your Build Monitor!
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Let's create another view for Jenkins using the Pipeline Aggregator View
plugin. This view is great because it shows lots of valuable information in a clean; easy to visualise way. Create a new view called todolist-pipelines
and select Pipeline Aggregator View
On the configure page; set the regex to todolist.*
Set the view to Only display last build
for simplicity of the view.
Save your configuration to see your Build Monitor!
Explore the Jenkins Blue Ocean view for some additional monitors and views that make Jenkins look pretty!
TODO - Add instructions for creating dashboards as part of s2i in Jenkins setup using DSL
enablement-ci-cd
.....Ideas for go-getters. Advanced topic for doers to get on with if they finish early. These will usually not have a solution and are provided for additional scope.
Additional Alerting
- Add Slack
integration to the Pipeline by setting up a WebHook to call the slack endpoint with Build Stats
- Add Twillio
text integration to send you text messages when the build fails.
Additional Monitoring
- Explore the Application's FEK stack inside OpenShift
List of links or other reading that might be of use / reference for the exercise
link back to the deck for the supporting material