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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)

Jenkins plugins explained

Jenkins CI already provides certain functionality, including building, deploying, and automating software projects. Any additional behavior that you want out of Jenkins is generally provided by the large plugin ecosystem in Jenkins.

Why are plugins useful?

The purpose of plugins/extensions in software is to add specific functionality to a software component. Web browsers such as Chrome have extensions that extend the functionality of the browser and Firefox has add-ons that serve the same purpose as extensions in Chrome. There also exist plugins in other software systems, but we will specifically focus on plugins in Jenkins.

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