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DevOps for Web Development

By : Mitesh Soni
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DevOps for Web Development

By: Mitesh Soni

Overview of this book

The DevOps culture is growing at a massive rate, as many organizations are adopting it. However, implementing it for web applications is one of the biggest challenges experienced by many developers and admins, which this book will help you overcome using various tools, such as Chef, Docker, and Jenkins. On the basis of the functionality of these tools, the book is divided into three parts. The first part shows you how to use Jenkins 2.0 for Continuous Integration of a sample JEE application. The second part explains the Chef configuration management tool, and provides an overview of Docker containers, resource provisioning in cloud environments using Chef, and Configuration Management in a cloud environment. The third part explores Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment in AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Docker, all using Jenkins 2.0. This book combines the skills of both web application deployment and system configuration as each chapter contains one or more practical hands-on projects. You will be exposed to real-world project scenarios that are progressively presented from easy to complex solutions. We will teach you concepts such as hosting web applications, configuring a runtime environment, monitoring and hosting on various cloud platforms, and managing them. This book will show you how to essentially host and manage web applications along with Continuous Integration, Cloud Computing, Configuration Management, Continuous Monitoring, Continuous Delivery, and Deployment.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
DevOps for Web Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Managing nodes


Jenkins provides a master-slave concept for managing the aforementioned scenarios. We can assign different build jobs to different slaves in the build configuration and use the master-slave system to manage its overall lifecycle. The master node itself can execute the build if a slave node is not configured explicitly in the build job configuration.

There are quite a few reasons for using this feature:

  • Build jobs require resources, and they compete for resource availability

  • A different runtime environment is required for different build jobs

  • It distributes the load across slave nodes

To make things clearer, we need not install Jenkins on the slave nodes. We only need to configure the slave nodes properly, which we will now cover.

The only requirements are the following:

  • The configurations and runtime environment have to be available on the slave node

  • The path needs to be configured correctly on the master node for the runtime environments or tools used by the slave node for execution...