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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)

Configuration and management

We have already covered the most crucial part of the Jenkins configuration: agents provisioning. Since Jenkins is highly configurable, you can expect much more possibilities to adjust it to your needs. The good news is that the configuration is intuitive and accessible via the web interface, so it does not require any detailed description. Everything can be changed under the Manage Jenkins subpage. In this section, we will focus only on a few aspects that are most likely to be changed: plugins, security, and backup.

Plugins

Jenkins is highly plugin-oriented, which means that a lot of features are delivered by the use of plugins. They can extend Jenkins almost in the unlimited way, which, taking...