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Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins - Second Edition

By : Rafał Leszko
Book Image

Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins - Second Edition

By: Rafał Leszko

Overview of this book

Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins, Second Edition will explain the advantages of combining Jenkins and Docker to improve the continuous integration and delivery process of an app development. It will start with setting up a Docker server and configuring Jenkins on it. It will then provide steps to build applications on Docker files and integrate them with Jenkins using continuous delivery processes such as continuous integration, automated acceptance testing, and configuration management. Moving on, you will learn how to ensure quick application deployment with Docker containers along with scaling Jenkins using Kubernetes. Next, you will get to know how to deploy applications using Docker images and testing them with Jenkins. Towards the end, the book will touch base with missing parts of the CD pipeline, which are the environments and infrastructure, application versioning, and nonfunctional testing. By the end of the book, you will be enhancing the DevOps workflow by integrating the functionalities of Docker and Jenkins.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Summary


We have covered the configuration management process and its relation to Docker and Kubernetes. The key takeaway points from the chapter are as follows:

  • Configuration management is a process of creating and applying the configurations of the infrastructure and the application.
  • Ansible is one of the most trending configuration management tools. It is agentless, and therefore, it requires no special server configuration.
  • Ansible can be used with ad hoc commands, but the real power lies in Ansible playbooks.
  • The Ansible playbook is a definition of how the environment should be configured.
  • The purpose of Ansible roles is to reuse parts of playbooks.
  • Ansible Galaxy is an online service to share Ansible roles.
  • Ansible integrates well with Docker and provides additional benefits, as compared to using Docker (and Kubernetes) alone.

In the next chapter, we will wrap up the Continuous Delivery process and complete the final Jenkins pipeline.