Scripting Plugins in Jenkins Pipelines

Introduction

When Jenkins first introduced Pipelines, the DevOps community recognized a major step forward in integrating with CI/CD solutions: The ability to create jobs either via the usual GUI or using a Groovy-based DSL meant DevOps shops could have greater control with their development workflows.  A "Jenkinsfile" (similar in nature to a Dockerfile) contains the script and can be treated as code, allowing it to be put into version control for obvious benefits.

Then Blue Ocean was announced as a way to visualize these pipeline jobs, proposing to make it easier still for shops to create pipelines in Jenkins, going so far as promising CD that "is no longer for the experts."

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