Creating and Configuring Freestyle Jobs

1. Navigate to Jenkins dashboard
2. Click "New Item"
3. Enter item name (e.g., "my-freestyle-job")
4. Select "Freestyle project"
5. Click "OK"

git clone https://github.com/example/project.git
cd project
git checkout main

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#!/bin/bash
set -e
echo "Starting build..."
npm install
npm test
echo "Build completed successfully."

**/target/*.jar
**/dist/*.zip

environment {
    JAVA_HOME = "/usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk"
    PATH = "${JAVA_HOME}/bin:${PATH}"
}

node("linux-build") {
    echo "Running on Linux build node"
}

export MY_VAR="value"

git checkout ${GIT_BRANCH}

**/*.jar

mail {
    to 'dev-team@example.com'
    subject 'Build ${build.number} is ${build.result}'
    body '''Build completed with result: ${build.result}
Log: ${build.url}console'''
}

pipeline {
    agent any
    post {
        always {
            // Retain last 5 builds and keep builds for up to 30 days
            buildDiscarder(logRotator(daysToKeep: 30, numToKeep: 5))
        }
    }
}

pipeline {
    agent any
    stages {
        stage('Build') {
            steps {
                echo 'Building...'
            }
        }
    }
    post {
        always {
            echo 'Build completed'
        }
    }
}

<project>
  <build>
    <cleanBeforeBuild>true</cleanBeforeBuild>
    <cleanAfterBuild>true</cleanAfterBuild>
  </build>
</project>