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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)

CircleCI configuration overview

Concept overview of CircleCI configuration

We will discuss many more concepts and configuration options in CircleCI in later chapters but, as an overview, let us look at a basic config.yml file and explain some of its concepts. We will create a new repository in GitHub with our packtci (https://github.com/packtci) Github user. You can find the new repository at https://github.com/packtci/go-template-example-with-circle-ci. We will also create a function in Golang that parses a template. We will then write a test case that parses the template text...