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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)

Triggers and notifications

So far, we have always built the pipeline manually by clicking on the Build Now button. It works but is not very convenient. All team members would have to remember that after committing to the repository, they need to open Jenkins and start the build. The same works with pipeline monitoring; so far, we manually opened Jenkins and checked the build status. In this section, we will see how to improve the process so that the pipeline would start automatically and, when completed, notify the team members about its status.

Triggers

An automatic action to start the build is called the pipeline trigger. In Jenkins, there are many options to choose from; however, they all boil down to three types:

  • External...