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Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment

By : Sander Rossel
Book Image

Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment

By: Sander Rossel

Overview of this book

The challenge faced by many teams while implementing Continuous Deployment is that it requires the use of many tools and processes that all work together. Learning and implementing all these tools (correctly) takes a lot of time and effort, leading people to wonder whether it's really worth it. This book sets up a project to show you the different steps, processes, and tools in Continuous Deployment and the actual problems they solve. We start by introducing Continuous Integration (CI), deployment, and delivery as well as providing an overview of the tools used in CI. You'll then create a web app and see how Git can be used in a CI environment. Moving on, you'll explore unit testing using Jasmine and browser testing using Karma and Selenium for your app. You'll also find out how to automate tasks using Gulp and Jenkins. Next, you'll get acquainted with database integration for different platforms, such as MongoDB and PostgreSQL. Finally, you'll set up different Jenkins jobs to integrate with Node.js and C# projects, and Jenkins pipelines to make branching easier. By the end of the book, you'll have implemented Continuous Delivery and deployment from scratch.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Version Control with Git

Before we continue with an example in the next chapter, we want to take some time to truly get to know Git. Git is an invaluable tool in your tool belt. It helps you and your team to share code, check out each others code, revert to previous code, and keep different versions of the same code side by side. In this chapter, we are going to explore these issues and learn how to make the most of it using Jenkins.

For some really in-depth Git reading, I recommend the book Pro Git, which you can read for free at the Git website, https://git-scm.com/book. With almost 600 pages, this is the absolute Git bible. For some practical use, just keep on reading.