cje-crash-course/exercises/02-job-creation/instructions.md

Exercise 2

In this exercise, you will create a new freestyle job and configure it to build with parameters. You'll also have a look at the Jenkins home directory to inspect the directory structure representing the job.

Defining, Configuring and Organizing a Job

1. From the dashboard, click the "New Item" button.
2. Enter the item name "my-freestyle-job" and select "Freestyle project". Press the "OK" button.
3. In the job configuration, define the option to only keep the last 2 builds. Provide the description "A simple freestyle job". Upon building the project, a String parameter named MESSAGE should be provided. Press the "Save" button.
4. Trigger a new build by pressing the "Build with Parameters" button. Enter a value for the MESSAGE parameter. The build should finish successfully. Locate the provided parameter value in the build information.
5. Run the build two more times. What do you see?
6. Create a new view named "test". Add the job to the view.
7. Create a new folder named "freestyle" as part of the view. Move the job into the folder.
8. Locate the build information in $JENKINS_HOME. Inspect the directory structure.