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Automate Jenkins with Groovy

In this lab, you'll explore three challenges from the associated course: you will use the script console to reset a build number, will create a Hello World groovy pipeline script, and finally you will configure your Jenkins instance with a startup script.

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(70)
Level
Beginner
Last updated
Aug 04, 2025
Duration
55m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Get Started in the Lab Environment

    Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!

  2. Challenge

    Work in the Script Console

    You’ve got a failed build for a software library that triggers a process in another system. The build problem has been corrected so that the next build will succeed, but having a gap in the build numbers will create headaches in the target system. You want to delete the failed build, and reset the build counter. Then, the next successful build will have the build number of the current failed build.

  3. Challenge

    Create a Pipeline Build

    As an admin, you’re concerned that the builds are not in version control, so you want to migrate from Freestyle builds to Pipeline builds. As a first step, you will create a simple Hello World pipeline build using Groovy as an inline script.

  4. Challenge

    Configure Jenkins with a Startup Script

    Your security officer has initiated a new policy requiring fresh logins for tools, specifically to disallow the Keep me signed in box. You’ll create a startup script that will make this box on the Jenkins login screen disappear.

About the author

Chris B. Behrens is a writer, speaker and software developer, specializing in DevOps. He has been a developer and architect for more than twenty years focusing on small to medium size companies and the development changes they face.

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