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Solution: Connect Jenkins to GitHub

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Solution: Connect Jenkins to GitHub

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It's time for another fun opportunity to test our skills. This time we're working with two of my favorite platforms, GitHub and Jenkins. In this challenge we're using a Jenkins file stored in a GitHub repo. The goal is to trigger the Jenkins pipeline whenever the repo is updated. I started by adding the files to the repo. Then I configured a Jenkins job to interact with the repo. I enabled the GitHub hook trigger for git-scm-polling first. This sets up Jenkins to listen for changes in GitHub. In the pipeline configuration, I selected git as the source control system. And then I entered the repository URL. I also had to update the branch specifier to use main instead of master. With all this in place, I ran the job. The first run was successful. Jenkins connected to GitHub, pulled in the code, and ran the pipeline. Back over in GitHub, I updated the repo settings by creating a webhook. This sets up GitHub to send event details to Jenkins every time there's a change in the repo…

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