So we use Jenkins at work, and I'd like to really learn how it works, particularly so I could customize our builds with Jenkins' flavor of Groovy scripts, understand what all of the build scripts mean, etc. But I just can't seem to find any solid, up-to-date documentation. Here's where I've looked so far: I've read "Jenkins: The Definitive Guide" -- this is good as far as it goes, but it's outdated (2011) and doesn't seem to cover many of the current Jenkins features The documentation on jenkins.io -- this is pretty minimal and clearly a work in progress The wiki at wiki.jenkins-ci.org -- this has more information than jenkins.io, but seems to be mostly focused articles on specific topics, without a comprehensive discussion of how it all works Stack Overflow -- there are a few questions on Jenkins documentation for specific use cases (e.g. writing a plugin), but as far as I can tell, none of those answers point to general, comprehensive documentation I feel like I must be just missing something, since so many people use Jenkins -- they must be figuring out how to use it somehow.

Reputation: 1227

Where can I find substantial, up-to-date Jenkins documentation?

So we use Jenkins at work, and I'd like to really learn how it works, particularly so I could customize our builds with Jenkins' flavor of Groovy scripts, understand what all of the build scripts mean, etc. But I just can't seem to find any solid, up-to-date documentation. Here's where I've looked so far:

I've read "Jenkins: The Definitive Guide" -- this is good as far as it goes, but it's outdated (2011) and doesn't seem to cover many of the current Jenkins features
The documentation on jenkins.io -- this is pretty minimal and clearly a work in progress
The wiki at wiki.jenkins-ci.org -- this has more information than jenkins.io, but seems to be mostly focused articles on specific topics, without a comprehensive discussion of how it all works
Stack Overflow -- there are a few questions on Jenkins documentation for specific use cases (e.g. writing a plugin), but as far as I can tell, none of those answers point to general, comprehensive documentation

I feel like I must be just missing something, since so many people use Jenkins -- they must be figuring out how to use it somehow.

Upvotes: 1

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lax1089

Reputation: 3473

I have found the Jenkins Handbook very useful. I would say it's got a lot of good information packed into 150 pages.

Due to the numerous implementation possibilities with Jenkins, it makes it somewhat difficult to fully document every possible use case.

Upvotes: 0

herm

Reputation: 16315

Jenkins has a lot of plugins and generally I would google the plugin you intend to use.

I found some documentation about the pipeline plugin on jenkins.io and there is a lot more documentation there. If you want to accomplish something that you can't find there again try to google or ask here :)

Upvotes: 1

Where can I find substantial, up-to-date Jenkins documentation?

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