Plugins are the primary means of enhancing the functionality of a Jenkins environment to suit organization needs.
There are over a thousand different plugins which can be installed on a Jenkins master and to integrate various build tools, cloud providers, analysis tools, and much more.
Plugins can be automatically downloaded, with their dependencies, from the Update Center.
The Update Center is a service operated by the Jenkins project which provides an repository of open source plugins which have been developed and maintained by various members of the Jenkins community.
Jenkins provides a couple of different methods for installing plugins on the master:
- Using the "Plugin Manager" in the web UI.
- Using the Jenkins CLI install-plugin command.
The plugins are packaged as self-contained .hpi files, which have all the necessary code, images, and other resources which the plugin needs to operate successfully.
Advanced installation:
The Update Center only allows the installation of the most recently released version of a plugin.
For Older version plugins, a Jenkins administrator can download an older .hpi archive and manually install that on the Jenkins master.
No comments:
Post a Comment