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Jenkins Blue Ocean visualization

Jenkins Blue Ocean is a user interface plugin designed to provide a modern, visual representation of Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines.^[400-devops-06-kubernetes-k8s-paas-05k8scicd.md]

Overview

Blue Ocean replaces the standard Jenkins dashboard with a cleaner, more intuitive visualization tool. Its primary goal is to offer a "complex visualization" of CD pipelines, allowing users to quickly and intuitively understand the status of a pipeline run^[400-devops-06-kubernetes-k8s-paas-05k8scicd.md].

Key Features

  • Pipeline Visualization: It provides a clear, graphical view of pipeline stages, making it easier to identify failures or bottlenecks in the build process^[400-devops-06-kubernetes-k8s-paas-05k8scicd.md].
  • Visual Editor: Users can utilize a visual editor to modify Pipeline as Code^[400-devops-06-kubernetes-k8s-paas-05k8scicd.md].
  • Branch Visibility: It allows for the viewing of branches and results directly from the dashboard^[400-devops-06-kubernetes-k8s-paas-05k8scicd.md].

Accessing Blue Ocean

Once installed and Jenkins has restarted, a "Blue Ocean" menu item appears in the main navigation sidebar.^[400-devops-06-kubernetes-k8s-paas-05k8scicd.md]

  • Jenkins
  • [[Continuous Delivery]]
  • [[Pipeline visualization]]

Sources

^[400-devops-06-kubernetes-k8s-paas-05k8scicd.md]