For this exercise, you’ve to ensure that Internet connectivity is present from the machine on which Jenkins is installed. In your Jenkins Dashboard (Home screen), click the Manage Jenkins option on the left hand side.

How to set up Git and Maven Plugin in Jenkins

Within the next screen, click the ‘Manage Plugins’ option.

Within the next screen, click the Available tab. This tab will give a list of plugins which are available for downloading. Within the ‘Filter’ tab type ‘Git plugin’

The list will then be filtered. Check the Git Plugin option and click on the button ‘Install without restart’

The installation will then begin and the screen will be refreshed to show the status of the download.

Once all installations are complete, restart Jenkins by issue the subsequent command within the browser.

http://localhost:8080/jenkins/restart

After Jenkins is restarted, Git will be available as an option whilst configuring jobs. To verify, click on New Item within the menu options for Jenkins. Then enter a name for a job, within the subsequent case, the name entered is ‘Demo’. Select ‘Freestyle project’ as the item type. Click the Ok button.

Within the next screen, if you browse to the Source code Management section, you’ll now see ‘Git’ as an option.

Jenkins – Maven Setup

Step 1: Downloading and Setting Up Maven

The official website for maven is Apache Maven. If you click the given link, you can get the home page of the maven official website as shown below.

How to set up Git and Maven Plugin in Jenkins

While browsing to the site, go to the Files section and download the link to the Binary.zip file.

Once the file is downloaded, extract the files to the relevant application folder. For this purpose, the maven files will be placed in E:\Apps\apache-maven-3.3.3.

Step 2: Setting up Jenkins and Maven

Within the Jenkins dashboard (Home screen), click Manage Jenkins from the left-hand side menu.

Then, click on ‘Configure System’ from the right hand side.

How to set up Git and Maven Plugin in Jenkins

Within the Configure system screen, scroll down till you see the Maven section and then click on the ‘Add Maven’ button.

Uncheck the ‘Install automatically’ option.
Add any name for the setting and the location of the MAVEN_HOME.
Then, click on the ‘Save’ button at the end of the screen.

You can now create a job with the ‘Maven project’ option. Within the Jenkins dashboard, click the New Item option.

How to set up Git and Maven Plugin in Jenkins

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