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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 4: The Business Value of CI/CD

  1. It is difficult for developers to work on a new feature without having all the requirements up front. It can be a great hindrance for a developers ability to finish assigned work without all the necessary requirements.
  2. Pain driven development is about improving processes that are causing you pain. The main point being that the pain that you feel will help point you into areas of improvement.
  3. Developers will eventually ignore messages if they are bombarded with too many alerts. It is best if the alerts are meaningful and not just noise.
  4. By rotating team members into different teams you help shape their perspective and give a broader understanding of development practices and increase their product knowledge.
  1. It is beneficial because not all development practices are valuable, it could be that a development practice is being done because...