Your First Freestyle Job

Part of the Jenkins course

You have read about what Jenkins is and why it stuck around. None of that matters until you have actually watched Jenkins clone a repository, run a command, and tell you whether it worked. This lesson gets you there the way most people met Jenkins for the first time, years before anything called a pipeline existed: by clicking through a form.

Open Jenkins in your workspace. Every job in Jenkins, no matter what kind, starts the same way: click New Item on the left sidebar. You are asked for a name and a type. Name it hello-freestyle, choose Freestyle project from the list, and click OK. ...