Integrating Jenkins with Source Control (Git)

# Introduction

Welcome to this lab on integrating Jenkins with Git. Source Control Management (SCM) is a cornerstone of modern software development. Integrating your Continuous Integration (CI) server, like Jenkins, with an SCM system, like Git, is a fundamental step in automating your build and test processes.

In this lab, you will learn how to:

- Verify that the Jenkins Git plugin is available.
- Create a Freestyle project linked to a local Git repository.
- Add a build step to execute a script from the repository.
- Run a build manually to test the configuration.
- Configure SCM polling to trigger builds automatically on new commits.

A Jenkins instance is already running for this lab. You can access the Jenkins web interface by opening the Firefox browser on the desktop. The browser will automatically open to `http://localhost:8080`, so you don't need to manually enter the URL. No login is required.