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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)

Installing MongoDB

In this chapter, we are going to use MongoDB, one of the most popular NoSQL databases at the time of writing. It is even pretty popular when compared to SQL databases. According to DB-Engines Ranking (https://db-engines.com/en/ranking), MongoDB is the fifth most popular database right after all the major SQL databases. In case you have no experience with NoSQL, it means Not-only-SQL (and not No-SQL-whatsoever). MongoDB is a document-oriented database, meaning it stores document-oriented or semi-structured data. It is not very different from SQL and so is a perfect introduction to the world of NoSQL. Additionally, it is quite easy to get started with. And so I chose to use it for this chapter.

I just want to quickly mention the biggest differences with SQL databases, such as SQL Server, MySQL, and Oracle. First of all, MongoDB stores its data as Binary JSON ...