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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)

Chapter 3: Basics of Continuous Delivery

  1. What we mean by delivering software is that the actual software product has been delivered to the intended user and not just that the software product has been approved by the QA department. In other words the intended users are actually using the software.
  2. Deploying software manually is an antipattern as well as manual software configuration.
  3. Some benefits of automation when delivering software is team empowerment ( teams feel empowered to make decisions ), error reduction as you eliminate errors that creep up due to manual processes as well as stress reduction.
  4. Configuration Management is the process by which all software artifacts that are pertinent to each given project as well as any relationships among the software artifacts are retrieved, stored, identified and modified.
  5. Writing descriptive and meaningful commit messages helps developers...