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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)

Configuration Management with Ansible

We have already covered the two most crucial phases of the Continuous Delivery process: the commit phase and the automated acceptance testing. In this chapter, we will focus on the configuration management, which connects the virtual containerized environment to the real server infrastructure.

This chapter covers the following points:

  • Introducing the concept of configuration management
  • Explaining the most popular configuration management tools
  • Discussing Ansible requirements and the installation process
  • Using Ansible with ad hoc commands
  • Showing the power of Ansible automation with playbooks
  • Explaining Ansible roles and Ansible Galaxy
  • Implementing a use case of the deployment process
  • Using Ansible together with Docker and Docker Compose