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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we have taken a better look at Jenkins. We have learned how to configure Jenkins, how to install and use plugins, how to create a project and expand on it as our needs for quality grow, and how to install Jenkins slaves and run multiple projects consecutively. In addition, we have played around with SonarQube and its quality gates and profiles. All in all, it is a lot of work to set up everything, but it is worth it in the long run. Your code is automatically reviewed and tested on multiple browsers, which ensures some baseline quality for your software. In the next chapters, we are going to expand on backend technologies, starting with Node.js and MongoDB, and learn how to fit those into Jenkins.