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Jenkins Administrator's Guide

By : Calvin Sangbin Park, Lalit Adithya, Sam Gleske
Book Image

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

Technical requirements

All the links in this chapter can be found in the README.md file inside the chapter 5 folder in the GitHub repository (https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Jenkins-Administrators-Guide/tree/main/ch5). Look for the heading you are currently reading, and you will find the links under the same heading in the README file.

Before you can begin, you will require an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account. If you don't have one, follow the instructions available at https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/create-and-activate-aws-account/ to create one. If you are using a personal credit card for AWS, set up a budget and alerts as explained here, https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/budgets-create.html, to ensure that there are no unexpected charges on your card.