Why artifact management matters in Jenkins - Test Your Understanding

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to define a Jenkins pipeline stage that archives build artifacts.

Jenkins

stage('Archive Artifacts') {
    steps {
        [1] 'build/output/*.jar'
    }
}

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Ash

BarchiveArtifacts

Ccheckout

Decho

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'sh' instead of 'archiveArtifacts' to save files.

The archiveArtifacts step in Jenkins saves build outputs so they can be accessed later.

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medium

Complete the code to upload an artifact to a Nexus repository using a shell command in Jenkins.

Jenkins

stage('Upload Artifact') {
    steps {
        sh 'curl -v -u user:pass -X POST [1]'
    }
}

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A"http://nexus.example.com/repository/maven-snapshots/" -F 'file=app.jar'

B"http://nexus.example.com/repository/maven-releases/" -d 'file=app.jar'

C"http://nexus.example.com/repository/maven-releases/" -F 'file=@build/output/app.jar'

D"http://nexus.example.com/repository/maven-releases/" -F 'file=app.jar'

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using '-d' instead of '-F' to upload files.

The curl command uploads the artifact file to the Nexus repository using the -F flag for form data.

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hard

Fix the error in the Jenkins pipeline snippet that tries to download an artifact but uses the wrong step.

Jenkins

stage('Download Artifact') {
    steps {
        [1] 'curl -O http://nexus.example.com/repository/maven-releases/app.jar'
    }
}

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Ash

BdownloadArtifacts

CarchiveArtifacts

Dcheckout

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using 'archiveArtifacts' to download files.

The sh step runs shell commands. To download an artifact, you can use curl inside sh. There is no built-in downloadArtifacts step.

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hard

Fill both blanks to create a Jenkins pipeline snippet that saves and then cleans up artifacts.

Jenkins

stage('Save and Clean') {
    steps {
        [1] 'dist/*.zip'
        [2]()
    }
}

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AarchiveArtifacts

Bsh

CdeleteDir

Dcheckout

Attempts:

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Common Mistakes

Using 'sh' to delete directories instead of 'deleteDir'.

archiveArtifacts saves the files, and deleteDir cleans the workspace directory.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to define a Jenkins pipeline that builds, archives, and uploads an artifact.

Jenkins

pipeline {
    agent any
    stages {
        stage('Build') {
            steps {
                [1] 'mvn clean package'
            }
        }
        stage('Archive') {
            steps {
                [2] 'target/*.jar'
            }
        }
        stage('Upload') {
            steps {
                [3] 'curl -v -u user:pass -X POST "http://nexus.example.com/repository/maven-releases/" -F "file=@target/app.jar"'
            }
        }
    }
}

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Ash

BarchiveArtifacts

Dcheckout

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'checkout' instead of 'sh' for build or upload steps.

Use sh to run the build command, archiveArtifacts to save the jar, and sh again to upload with curl.