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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)

macOS installation

Installing Jenkins in macOS is relatively easy and you can do it in a couple of ways.

Jenkins downloads package

In this section, we will cover how to install Jenkins using the Mac Package Installer (.pkg) files:

  1. Go to the Jenkins download URL (https://jenkins.io/download/).
  2. Scroll to the bottom of the page and you should see a list of operating systems that you can install Jenkins on.
  3. Click the Mac OS X button link, and you should be taken to a page like this:

  1. Either click on the .pkg file that you can see at the bottom of your browser window or double-click the Jenkins .pkg file in your downloads file:
  1. Notice that there are two buttons in the bottom-right corner aptly named Go Back and Continue...