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Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins

By : Rafał Leszko
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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)

Configuring Jenkins

We have seen how to configure and use Docker. In this chapter, we will present Jenkins, which can be used separately or together with Docker. We will show that the combination of these two tools outcomes in the surprisingly good results: automated configuration and flexible scalability.

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Introducing Jenkins and its advantages
  • Installing and starting Jenkins
  • Creating the first pipeline
  • Scaling Jenkins with agents
  • Configuring Docker-based agents
  • Building custom master and slave Docker images
  • Configuring strategies for the security and backup