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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)

Best Practices

In the last chapter, Chapter 14, CircleCI UI Logging and Debugging, we covered more advanced debugging and logging techniques using CircleCI and went over more options using the CircleCI API. In the last chapter of the book, we will go over best practices for different types of testing, such as unit testing, integration testing, system testing, and acceptance testing. We will go over best practices with password management and use the Vault library as an example. Lastly, we will go over best practices in deployments in CI/CD and write a custom Go script to create a GitHub release.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Best practices for different types of testing in CI/CD
  • Best practices in password and secrets storage
  • Best practices in deployment