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Use build steps in a pipeline

Use build steps in a pipeline - Jenkins Tutorial

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Use build steps in a pipeline

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I've created a pipeline job using the pipeline configuration from the exercise files for this lesson. Declarative pipelines start with the word pipeline, followed by curly braces that contain instructions for Jenkins to run. A pipeline configuration has three required sections. An agent section, a stages section, and inside the stages section we're required to have at least one stage. Each stage is required to have at least one step. Let's discuss each of these sections in more detail. The Agent section specifies where the commands in a pipeline will be run. We can specify an agent using Any, Label, Docker Container, or None. If we use Agent Any, we're letting Jenkins know that it can run the pipeline using the first available executor. In systems where Jenkins is running jobs on the controller, this is the agent configuration you would use the most. When we need to be specific about the agent running a pipeline, we can use the label parameter. This is helpful when we need to run a…

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