Day 14: Jenkins - Integrating with Git
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Again, CloudBeesTV has solid walkthroughs I followed for this topic.
To integrate Jenkins with Git: install the Git plugin, add your repository URL to the job, store access under Credentials (SSH key or personal access token — never hardcode secrets in job config), and add a webhook on the Git host so pushes trigger builds. For multibranch projects, Jenkins discovers branches via a Jenkinsfile in each branch and builds them automatically.
One thing worth knowing early: when you manage multiple projects of the same type (say, several Python services), each repo ends up with a nearly identical Jenkinsfile differing only in small parameters. That is what Jenkins Shared Libraries solve — extract the common pipeline logic into a versioned library and keep each project’s Jenkinsfile to just its parameters.