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Mastering Jenkins

By : jmcallister -, Jonathan McAllister
Book Image

Mastering Jenkins

By: jmcallister -, Jonathan McAllister

Overview of this book

With the software industry becoming more and more competitive, organizations are now integrating delivery automation and automated quality assurance practices into their business model. Jenkins represents a complete automation orchestration system, and can help converge once segregated groups into a cohesive product development and delivery team. By mastering the Jenkins platform and learning to architect and implement Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment solutions, your organization can learn to outmanoeuvre and outpace the competition. This book will equip you with the best practices to implement advanced continuous delivery and deployment systems in Jenkins. The book begins with giving you high-level architectural fundamentals surrounding Jenkins and Continuous Integration. You will cover the different installation scenarios for Jenkins, and see how to install it as a service, as well as the advanced XML configurations. Then, you will proceed to learn more about the architecture and implementation of the Jenkins Master/Save node system, followed by creating and managing Jenkins build jobs effectively. Furthermore, you'll explore Jenkins as an automation orchestration system, followed by implementing advanced automated testing techniques. The final chapters describe in depth the common integrations to Jenkins from third-party tools such as Jira, Artifactory, Amazon EC2, and getting the most out of the Jenkins REST-based API. By the end of this book, you will have all the knowledge necessary to be the definitive resource for managing and implementing advanced Jenkins automation solutions for your organization.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering Jenkins
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 9. Integrating Jenkins with Other Technologies

Jenkins has come a long way since its initial introduction as a unified Java build tool. It has matured significantly and evolved into a robust automation system and project orchestration solution. Jenkins has been extended significantly by the open source community and is now capable of communicating and integrating with numerous technologies, and platforms. With the advent of these integration capabilities, Jenkins has seen widespread growth and adoption by organizations worldwide. As Jenkins enthusiasts, we get to navigate this complex technical landscape and gain experience in evaluating and integrating Jenkins with a multitude of new technologies. Dabbling in new technology arenas and innovation is what makes developing pipelines in Jenkins so exciting.

 

"When the winds of change blow, some people build walls while others build windmills"

 
 --Chinese proverb

In this chapter of Mastering Jenkins we will discover some creative ways to...