30 Jenkins features and plugins you wished you had known about before!

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Thirty concrete Jenkins tips: use the Jenkins/jenkins Docker image and a volume to persist configs, install plugins via the install-plugins script and trigger a safe-restart, open JNLP port 50000 for agents, prefer ephemeral swarm or cloud agents, keep heavy work on agents not master, store pipelines as Jenkinsfile, use parallel stages and test-splitting for long suites, annotate non-serializable code with @NonCPS, extract shared libraries, and add Build Monitor, Job Config History, Job DSL, throttle, timestamps and version-name plugins.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:14Set-up: Use docker
3. 1:54Set-up: Use the jenkins/jenkins Docker images
4. 2:11Set-up: First time installer & Plugins
5. 2:56Set-up: Provision your plugins
6. 3:39Set-up: Don't do work on the Master, use Agents
7. 4:58Set-up: Provision agents using Swarm plugin
8. 5:38Set-up: Automate agent provisioning and make them ephemeral
9. 7:28Jobs: Pipeline: Job configuration as code
10. 8:13Jobs: Pipeline: Do work on agents...
11. 10:00Jobs: Pipeline: Stages are groups of steps
12. 10:32Jobs: Pipeline: Don't mess with environment variables
13. 11:30Jobs: Pipeline: Parameters are an option
14. 12:50Jobs: Pipeline: Parallelism
15. 15:04Jobs: Pipeline: Know the difference between Declarative and Scripted
16. 17:44Continuation-passing style (CPS)
17. 19:06Jobs: Pipeline: Aborting Pipelines
18. 19:48Jobs: Pipeline: Blue ocean GUI
19. 21:02Jobs: Pipeline: There is a Pipeline editor
20. 21:36Jobs: Pipeline: Use Shared libraries
21. 22:18Jobs: Pipeline: Use files from shared libraries
22. 22:42Views: Build your own view
23. 23:47Views: Less mails, more Build Monitor
24. 24:22There is an API
25. 25:23Views: Extreme feedback
26. 26:11Learn about Cloudbees
27. 26:48Enterprise Jenkins: Cloudbees
28. 27:31My favorite plugins

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