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Add a status badge to Markdown files

Add a status badge to Markdown files - Jenkins Tutorial

From the course: Jenkins Essential Training

Add a status badge to Markdown files

- [Instructor] Displaying a status badge is another way to connect Jenkins with a version control system. Status badges are dynamically generated images that communicate whether a build is passing or failing. Typically, status badges are a place in the README file for a GitHub repository. However, they can also be embedded in webpages or other online documents. To enable status badges, we need to install the Embeddable Build Status plugin. Let's install this plugin and add a status badge to the README file in the GitHub repo. I'm logged into my Jenkins server, and I'm going to add the embeddable build status plugin, so that we can add a badge to a GitHub repo for the fibonacci job from the previous lesson. I'll start by selecting Manage Jenkins, and then Manage Plugins. On this screen, I'll select the Available tab, and then filter on the keyword, embed. Okay, there's the Embeddable Build Status plugin, which is exactly…

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