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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)

Jenkins

We now have our code, our unit tests with code coverage, our E2E tests, and our database test. Time to get it to work in Jenkins. First, we must commit everything to Git. We need the three folders in the same Git repository though (strictly, we do not, but it makes everything so much easier). It is a good idea to create a new Git repository using GitLab. I have named it web-shop-csharp. Clone the web-shop-csharp repository to your machine and put web-shop, web-shop-tests, and web-shop-selenium in the repository. You will now have over 4,000 files to commit. Create (or copy) a .gitignore file so we exclude some generated files. Those include Bower and npm files, generated JavaScript, CSS files, and test results. You will be left with less than 100 files (69 if you followed my exact directions):

**/bin/**
**/obj/**
**/TestResults/**
**/node_modules/**
**/bundles/**
**/wwwroot...