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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)

Running tasks

Just because we are now working in C# it does not mean we do not have any frontend worries anymore. We still need to minify, bundle, Browserify, and many more. We can handle minification and bundling in .NET. For Browserify, we will need Gulp again. First, take a look at the bundleconfig.json file. It contains some bundling and minification information that is handled by .NET:

// Configure bundling and minification for the project.
// More info at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=808241
[
{
"outputFileName": "wwwroot/css/site.min.css",
// An array of relative input file paths. Globbing patterns supported
"inputFiles": [
"wwwroot/css/site.css"
]
},
[...]
]

To get this to work, we first need to install the BundlerMinifier.Core tool. You can do this by manually editing your csproj file and...