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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)

Best practices

Thank you for reading this book. I hope you are ready to introduce the Continuous Delivery approach to your IT projects. As the last section of this book, I propose a list of the top 10 Continuous Delivery practices. Enjoy!

Practice 1 – own process within the team!

Own the entire process within the team, from receiving requirements to monitoring the production. As once said: A program running on the developer's machine makes no money. This is why it's important to have a small DevOps team that takes complete ownership of a product. Actually, that is the true meaning of DevOps - Development and Operations from the beginning to the end:

  • Own every stage of the Continuous Delivery pipeline...