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Jenkins Administrator's Guide

By : Calvin Sangbin Park, Lalit Adithya, Sam Gleske
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Jenkins Administrator's Guide

By: Calvin Sangbin Park, Lalit Adithya, Sam Gleske

Overview of this book

Jenkins is a renowned name among build and release CI/CD DevOps engineers because of its usefulness in automating builds, releases, and even operations. Despite its capabilities and popularity, it's not easy to scale Jenkins in a production environment. Jenkins Administrator's Guide will not only teach you how to set up a production-grade Jenkins instance from scratch, but also cover management and scaling strategies. This book will guide you through the steps for setting up a Jenkins instance on AWS and inside a corporate firewall, while discussing design choices and configuration options, such as TLS termination points and security policies. You’ll create CI/CD pipelines that are triggered through GitHub pull request events, and also understand the various Jenkinsfile syntax types to help you develop a build and release process unique to your requirements. For readers who are new to Amazon Web Services, the book has a dedicated chapter on AWS with screenshots. You’ll also get to grips with Jenkins Configuration as Code, disaster recovery, upgrading plans, removing bottlenecks, and more to help you manage and scale your Jenkins instance. By the end of this book, you’ll not only have a production-grade Jenkins instance with CI/CD pipelines in place, but also knowledge of best practices by industry experts.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Index

Jenkins Infrastructure with TLS/SSL and Reverse Proxy

In this chapter, we will learn about the foundational components of Jenkins: the controller, agents, cloud, domain name, TLS/SSL certificates, and reverse proxy. First, we will learn where each component fits into the architecture, and then prepare the VMs and TLS/SSL certificates. Finally, we will learn the importance of choosing the right storage medium for the Jenkins controller and discuss the pros and cons of some of the popular storage options. By the end of this chapter, we will understand the Jenkins architecture and have the necessary components ready so that we can put them together in the next chapter.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics:

  • Why Jenkins?
  • Searching for answers online with Jenkins keywords
  • Understanding the Jenkins architecture
  • AWS: FAQs, routing rules, EC2 instances, and EIPs
  • Installing Docker on our VMs
  • Acquiring domain...