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Mastering Jenkins

By : jmcallister -, Jonathan McAllister
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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

Continuous Delivery


Continuous Delivery represents a logical extension to Continuous Integration practices. It expands the automation defined in continuous integration beyond simply using a shared mainline, building the software project and executing unit tests. Continuous Delivery adds automated deployments and acceptance test verification automation to the solution and ensures the software project is in an always-releasable state. To better describe this process, let's take a look at some basic characteristics of Continuous Delivery:

  • The development resources use Continuous Integration to commit changes to the mainline of the source control solution multiple times per day, and the automation system initiates a complete build, deploy, and test validation for each commit

  • Automated tests should execute against every change deployed, and help ensure that the software remains in an always-releasable state.

  • Every committed change is treated as potentially releasable, and extra care is taken to...