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Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins

By : Nikhil Pathania
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Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins

By: Nikhil Pathania

Overview of this book

In past few years, Agile software development has seen tremendous growth across the world. There is huge demand for software delivery solutions that are fast yet flexible to frequent amendments. As a result, CI and continuous delivery methodologies are gaining popularity. Jenkins’ core functionality and flexibility allows it to fit in a variety of environments and can help streamline the development process for all stakeholders. This book starts off by explaining the concepts of CI and its significance in the Agile world with a whole chapter dedicated to it. Next, you’ll learn to configure and set up Jenkins. You’ll gain a foothold in implementing CI and continuous delivery methods. We dive into the various features offered by Jenkins one by one exploiting them for CI. After that, you’ll find out how to use the built-in pipeline feature of Jenkins. You’ll see how to integrate Jenkins with code analysis tools and test automation tools in order to achieve continuous delivery. Next, you’ll be introduced to continuous deployment and learn to achieve it using Jenkins. Through this book’s wealth of best practices and real-world tips, you'll discover how easy it is to implement a CI service with Jenkins.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 6. Continuous Delivery Using Jenkins

This chapter begins with the definition of Continuous Delivery (CD) and its relation to Continuous Integration, followed by a Continuous Delivery Design. While working on the Continuous Delivery Design, we will create various new Jenkins jobs, but in a slightly different manner. For the very first time in this book, we will use the parameterized triggers in Jenkins.

These parameterized triggers have proved to be the most useful and versatile features in Jenkins. Using such triggers, we can pass the parameters among connected Jenkins jobs, which makes communication among Jenkins jobs more powerful.

We will also see how to configure slaves in Jenkins. The Jenkins master-slave configuration can be used in various scenarios. However, in this chapter, we will use it to let a Jenkins master perform various tests on a Jenkins slave agent (testing server).

In the process, we will see how Jenkins can be configured with various test automation tools, such...