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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)

Jenkins hello world

Everything in the entire IT world starts from the Hello World example.

Let's follow this rule and see the steps to create the first Jenkins pipeline:

  1. Click on New Item.
  2. Enter hello world as the item name, choose Pipeline, and click on OK.
  3. There are a lot of options. We will skip them for now and go directly to the Pipeline section.
  4. There, in the Script textbox, we can enter the pipeline script:
      pipeline {
agent any
stages {
stage("Hello") {
steps {
echo 'Hello World'
}
}
}
}
  1. Click on Save.
  2. Click on Build Now.

We should see #1 under the Build History. If we click on it, and then on Console Output, we will see the log from the Pipeline build.

We have just seen the first example and its successful...