Domain Specific Language Jenkins
The pipeline plugin introduces a domain specific language dsl that helps jenkins users to model their software delivery pipelines as code which can be checked in and version controlled along with the rest of their project s source code.
Domain specific language jenkins. As of version 2 5 of the pipeline plugin pipeline supports two discrete syntaxes which are detailed below. With this property different users speaking different languages may use same integration tool easily. Content types announcements blogs communities discussions. Jenkins support groovy language because groovy support java and jenkins already have java.
There are four states of continuous delivery in jenkins pipeline. When a job i s configured for downloading code from github then developer upload code for job. However sometimes we may need to enforce a common language or we do not want to change our browser settings just to use. Declarative pipelines as the name suggests a declarative pipeline follows a declarative programming model.
Skip main navigation press enter. Jenkins has a pretty property of using browsers settings for language accept language header. The plugin allows for writing build instructions using a domain specific language based on apache groovy. This section builds on the information introduced in getting started with pipeline and should be treated solely as a reference.
This gives us the essence of devops culture and ci cd in the complete sense. For more information on how to use pipeline syntax in practical examples refer to the using a jenkinsfile section of this chapter. This is a default property. The jenkins pipeline has an expandable automation system for building basic or complicated template distribution pipelines via the domain specific language dsl used in the pipeline.
Jenkins replaced hudson since february 8 2017 in eclipse. In march 2018 jenkins x software project for kubernetes was publicly presented with support for different cloud providers including aws eks among others. And this is possible by using a domain specific language for jenkins called groovy. Declarative pipelines are written in a domain specific language in jenkins that is clear and easy to understand.