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Jenkins 2.x Continuous Integration Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Mitesh Soni, Alan Mark Berg
Book Image

Jenkins 2.x Continuous Integration Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Mitesh Soni, Alan Mark Berg

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)

Final comments

The combination of Jenkins with aggressive automated testing acts as a solid safety net around coding projects. The recipes in this book support best practices.

Producing quality requires great attention to detail. Jenkins can pay attention to many of the details and then shout loudly when violations occur.

Each project is different and there are many ways to structure the workflow. Luckily, with over 1,000 plugins and the number rising rapidly, Jenkins is flexible enough to adapt to even the most obscure infrastructures.

If you do not have the exact plugin that you want, then it is straightforward for Java programmers to adapt or create their own plugin.