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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

Summary

In this chapter, we saw click-by-click instructions for how to create and update the necessary services for running Jenkins on AWS. We learned how to create EC2 instances, security groups, ALBs, elastic IPs, and DNS records in Route 53. We also learned how to create the necessary resources on AWS for automated and manual verification for Let's Encrypt. We also learned how to update the security groups in case our IP changes. Using the skills we have learned in this chapter, we can easily and effortlessly spin up a Jenkins controller along with an agent and Docker cloud host on the AWS cloud.

Congratulations! You have successfully completed Part 1 of this book! You should have a production-grade Jenkins instance with premerge and postmerge pipelines for your product. In the second part of this book, we will learn how to scale Jenkins to serve a larger team, an organization, or even a company. In the next chapter, we will learn about Jenkins Configuration as Code...