Triggers and Schedules
Part of the Jenkins course
A pipeline that only runs when somebody clicks Build Now is not continuous integration, it is a button. The value of CI comes from the builds nobody asked for: the one that catches a broken merge four minutes after it lands, the nightly that notices a dependency published a bad release overnight. All of that depends on the pipeline starting itself.
This lesson covers the three ways that happens: on a schedule, by polling, and by webhook. It also covers the job type that wires the last of those up for you and handles every branch and pull request without you configuring anything per branch. ...
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Start this lessonTriggers and SchedulesWhat you'll learn
- Triggers block
- Cron syntax with H
- PollSCM
- Multibranch Pipeline
- GitHub and GitLab webhooks
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All lessons in this course
11 lessons- 1What Is Jenkins20 min
- 2Your First Freestyle Job25 min
- 3Your First Declarative Pipeline30 min
- 4Stages, Steps, and Post Blocks30 min
- 5Artifacts and Test Results25 min
- 6Environment and Credentials30 min
- 7Parallel and Matrix Builds30 min
- 8Agents and Docker30 min
- 9Triggers and Schedules25 min
- 10Shared Libraries30 min
- 11Capstone: Pipeline as Code for a Node.js App45 min
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