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Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins

By : Rafał Leszko
Book Image

Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins

By: Rafał Leszko

Overview of this book

The combination of Docker and Jenkins improves your Continuous Delivery pipeline using fewer resources. It also helps you scale up your builds, automate tasks and speed up Jenkins performance with the benefits of Docker containerization. This book will explain the advantages of combining Jenkins and Docker to improve the continuous integration and delivery process of app development. It will start with setting up a Docker server and configuring Jenkins on it. It will then provide steps to build applications on Docker files and integrate them with Jenkins using continuous delivery processes such as continuous integration, automated acceptance testing, and configuration management. Moving on you will learn how to ensure quick application deployment with Docker containers along with scaling Jenkins using Docker Swarm. Next, you will get to know how to deploy applications using Docker images and testing them with Jenkins. By the end of the book, you will be enhancing the DevOps workflow by integrating the functionalities of Docker and Jenkins.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Exercises

We've covered a lot of material in this chapter. To make well-remembered, we recommend two exercises.

  1. Run CouchDB as a Docker container and publish its port:
You can use the docker search command to find the CouchDB image.
    • Run the container
    • Publish the CouchDB port
    • Open the browser and check that CouchDB is available
  1. Create a Docker image with the REST service replying Hello World! to localhost:8080/hello. Use any language and framework you prefer:
The easiest way to create a REST service is to use Python with the Flask framework, http://flask.pocoo.org/. Note that a lot of web frameworks start the application on the localhost interface only by default. In order to publish a port, it's necessary to start it on all interfaces (app.run(host='0.0.0.0') in the case of a Flask framework).
    • Create a web service application
    • Create a Dockerfile...