Jenkins Pipeline and Data Visualization Dashboard

• Jenkins is an open-source Java-based third-party server, which provides a content-based dashboard.
• It helps organizations to build, test, and deploy projects automatically for each & every change and commits they made in their files or projects.
• React-D3 is a Javascript library to build reusable components and interactive charts. React-D3 is a highly composable and declarative chart library, creates different types of charts such as line chart or bar chart and many more.

Challenges for Building the Dashboard

• Less Interactive and Flexible.
• No Proper listing of projects, jobs, builds, and builds status.
• Content-Based Dashboard with fewer visualizations.

Solution Offerings for Building the Dashboard

• Implement a Read-Only dashboard for Jenkins using Jenkins REST API for data, and React.JS and D3.JS Charts to build a flexible, interactive, graphical Jenkins Dashboard.
• First, integrate D3 Charts Library with the React Application.
• Use Jenkins REST API and manipulate to visualize different types of charts and data in the dashboard.

• Responsive, Cross browser & flexible Dashboard UI.
• Manipulate the REST API data as per requirement.
• Live data update according to the existing Jenkins Dashboard.
• Graph-based view of data using React D3 Charts libraries.
• Filter based view of data(like last 15, 30 days, or custom date range, builds status & many more).
• Quickly get the status of last committed changes or jobs and many more.

Building and Monitoring Jenkins Pipeline

Jenkins Pipeline Architecture

• Configure a build environment.
• Check the code.
• Build code without using environment specific settings for the build process independent of the environment.
• Perform quality controls consisting of running tests and code quality checks.
• Code Deployment on Continuous Integration environment.
• Run functional tests and deploy code on the testing environment.
• Code deployment on the User Acceptance and Production environment.

Features of Jenkins Pipeline

• Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery Automation.
• Reliable and Efficient.
• Iterative Development and Access Control.
• Multi-branch Pipelines.
• Elimination of manual job creation and management.
• Version Control.
• Extended and Integrated with other plugins

Monitoring and Visualizing Jenkins Pipeline

• Visualize job duration metrics.
• Use Real Jenkins Pipeline.
• Develop Pipeline as Code.
• Logical Segmentation of Pipeline called as Stages.
• Branch Pipeline in parallel steps.
• Acquire nodes within parallelism.
• Don't use input within node block.
• Time Out plans for inputs.
• Don't set environment variables with global environment variables.
• Downstream Buildview Plugin to visualize.
• Display status and progress of selected jobs.
• Support job view filters and build view analyzer.
• Support Claim Plugin to find broken build.