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Hands-On Continuous Integration and Delivery

By : Jean-Marcel Belmont
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Hands-On Continuous Integration and Delivery

By: Jean-Marcel Belmont

Overview of this book

Hands-On Continuous Integration and Delivery starts with the fundamentals of continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) and where it fits in the DevOps ecosystem. You will explore the importance of stakeholder collaboration as part of CI/CD. As you make your way through the chapters, you will get to grips with Jenkins UI, and learn to install Jenkins on different platforms, add plugins, and write freestyle scripts. Next, you will gain hands-on experience of developing plugins with Jenkins UI, building the Jenkins 2.0 pipeline, and performing Docker integration. In the concluding chapters, you will install Travis CI and Circle CI and carry out scripting, logging, and debugging, helping you to acquire a broad knowledge of CI/CD with Travis CI and CircleCI. By the end of this book, you will have a detailed understanding of best practices for CI/CD systems and be able to implement them with confidence.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Setting up CircleCI in GitHub

Let us add a new project to CircleCI with our functional-summer (https://github.com/packtci/functional-summer) GitHub project using our packtci (https://github.com/packtci) GitHub account. The first thing we need to do is to click the Add Projects button for GitHub that looks like this in the dashboard:

Once you click the Add Projects button you will be routed to a page like this:

We will click the Set Up Project button for the functional-summer GitHub repository and will be routed to a page like this:

CircleCI automatically picked Node as our language because we have a package.json file and because we have JavaScript files in this repository. We are not done yet, though. If you scroll further down this page, you will notice some next steps to get CircleCI started in our project:

We need to create a folder called .circleci in the root of our...