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Jenkins 2.x Continuous Integration Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Mitesh Soni, Berg
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Jenkins 2.x Continuous Integration Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Mitesh Soni, 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)

Introduction

An orchestration or pipeline is all about defining a sequence of execution to manage an application life cycle based on requirements.

A simple example can be that you may want to perform a static code analysis first; if it complies to the defined quality gate, then it should only perform Continuous Integration and create an application package that can be deployed in a specific environment.

Once the package is ready, deploy it into a test environment for manual or automated testing based on the requirements and defined policies in the organization. Once it is promoted for UAT or the staging environment, then you may want to perform functional test execution and performance testing.

Once this flow is completed, you may want to deploy it in a production environment, but not without the approval of the specific stakeholder.

This is the orchestration of build jobs or...