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Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment

By : Sander Rossel
Book Image

Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment

By: Sander Rossel

Overview of this book

The challenge faced by many teams while implementing Continuous Deployment is that it requires the use of many tools and processes that all work together. Learning and implementing all these tools (correctly) takes a lot of time and effort, leading people to wonder whether it's really worth it. This book sets up a project to show you the different steps, processes, and tools in Continuous Deployment and the actual problems they solve. We start by introducing Continuous Integration (CI), deployment, and delivery as well as providing an overview of the tools used in CI. You'll then create a web app and see how Git can be used in a CI environment. Moving on, you'll explore unit testing using Jasmine and browser testing using Karma and Selenium for your app. You'll also find out how to automate tasks using Gulp and Jenkins. Next, you'll get acquainted with database integration for different platforms, such as MongoDB and PostgreSQL. Finally, you'll set up different Jenkins jobs to integrate with Node.js and C# projects, and Jenkins pipelines to make branching easier. By the end of the book, you'll have implemented Continuous Delivery and deployment from scratch.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Creating the project

First, let's create a Git repository that will hold our web shop project. Make sure your VM is running and browse to GitLab. It does not really matter if you create the project under your local account or in a group; you can always change that later. I have called the repository web-shop, but you can really name it anything you like. If you go for another name, make sure to change the name of the repository in all upcoming code snippets.

Now that you have a repository, you can clone it to your development machine. We have done this before, so that should not be a problem. I have chosen to clone the repository to my desktop for quick access, but I would recommend cloning it to C:\Repositories or your Documents(\Repositories) folder, some place where you keep your Git repositories:

cd your-folder
git clone http://ciserver/youruser/web-shop.git
cd web-shop...