It is always better to avoid or prevent problems rather than solving them later in a situation where lot of things are at stake and the cost interms of price, reputation, and market scenario is much harder to deal with. The later in the software life cycle you correct a problem, the costlier it will prove to be. Failing early is significantly cheaper than failing later. Continuous Integration allows you to automatically fail software early. Adding extra tests through plugins or connected cloud services gives greater opportunity to face your issues early, improving quality and decreasing costs. Embrace acknowledging issues because you are saving time and money. Failing later in the project creates a situation of no point of return. Even in case of infrastructure provisioning, cloud computing has changed a scenario. Because of pay-as-you-go billing models...
Jenkins 2.x Continuous Integration Cookbook - Third Edition
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Jenkins 2.x Continuous Integration Cookbook - Third Edition
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Overview of this book
Jenkins 2.x is one of the most popular Continuous Integration servers in the market today. It was designed to maintain, secure, communicate, test, build, and improve the software development process.
This book will begin by guiding you through steps for installing and configuring Jenkins 2.x on AWS and Azure. This is followed by steps that enable you to manage and monitor Jenkins 2.x. You will also explore the ways to enhance the overall security of Jenkins 2.x. You will then explore the steps involved in improving the code quality using SonarQube. Then, you will learn the ways to improve quality, followed by how to run performance and functional tests against a web application and web services.
Finally, you will see what the available plugins are, concluding with best practices to improve quality.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
Getting Started with Jenkins
Management and Monitoring of Jenkins
Managing Security
Improving Code Quality
Building Applications in Jenkins
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Testing
Orchestration
Jenkins UI Customization
Processes that Improve Quality
Customer Reviews