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Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins

By : Nikhil Pathania
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Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins

By: Nikhil Pathania

Overview of this book

In past few years, Agile software development has seen tremendous growth across the world. There is huge demand for software delivery solutions that are fast yet flexible to frequent amendments. As a result, CI and continuous delivery methodologies are gaining popularity. Jenkins’ core functionality and flexibility allows it to fit in a variety of environments and can help streamline the development process for all stakeholders. This book starts off by explaining the concepts of CI and its significance in the Agile world with a whole chapter dedicated to it. Next, you’ll learn to configure and set up Jenkins. You’ll gain a foothold in implementing CI and continuous delivery methods. We dive into the various features offered by Jenkins one by one exploiting them for CI. After that, you’ll find out how to use the built-in pipeline feature of Jenkins. You’ll see how to integrate Jenkins with code analysis tools and test automation tools in order to achieve continuous delivery. Next, you’ll be introduced to continuous deployment and learn to achieve it using Jenkins. Through this book’s wealth of best practices and real-world tips, you'll discover how easy it is to implement a CI service with Jenkins.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Continuous Deployment in action


To keep things simple, we won't be making any code changes. Instead, we will simply retrigger our Jenkins job to poll the integration branch, that is, Poll_Build_StaticCodeAnalysis_IntegrationTest_Integration_Branch, to begin the Continuous Deployment pipeline. The steps are as follows:

  1. From the Jenkins Dashboard, click on the build button for the Poll_Build_StaticCodeAnalysis_IntegrationTest_Integration_Branch Jenkins job.

  2. That's it! The pipeline begins.

Jenkins Continuous Deployment pipeline flow in action

We have successfully triggers the Jenkins Continuous Deployment pipeline. Now let's see it in action:

  1. Go to the Jenkins Dashboard and click on the Continuous Deployment view.

  2. From the menu present on the left-hand side, click on the View Fullscreen link.

  3. You will see the Jenkins jobs in the Continuous Deployment pipeline in action, as shown here:

    Note

    The proceeding image shows the Continuous Delivery (CD) pipeline in progress.

  4. Open the source tree and you can see...