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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)

Jenkins installation

The Jenkins installation process is quick and simple. There are different methods to do it, but since we're already familiar with the Docker tool and the benefits it gives, we will start from the Docker-based solution. This is also the easiest, the most predictable, and the smartest way to go. However, let's mention the installation requirements first.

Requirements for installation

The minimal system requirements are relatively low:

  • Java 8
  • 256MB free memory
  • 1 GB+ free disk space

However, it's essential to understand that the requirements strictly depend on what you plan to do with Jenkins. If Jenkins is used to serve the whole team as the Continuous Integration server, then even in case...