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Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins - Second Edition

By : Nikhil Pathania
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Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins - Second Edition

By: Nikhil Pathania

Overview of this book

In past few years, agile software development has seen tremendous growth. There is a huge demand for software delivery solutions that are fast yet flexible to numerous amendments. As a result, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) methodologies are gaining popularity. This book starts off by explaining the concepts of CI and its significance in the Agile. Next, you'll learn how to configure and set up Jenkins in many different ways. The book exploits the concept of "pipeline as code" and various other features introduced in the Jenkins 2.x release to their full potential. We also talk in detail about the new Jenkins Blue Ocean interface and the features that help to quickly and easily create a CI pipeline. Then we dive into the various features offered by Jenkins one by one, exploiting them for CI and CD. Jenkins' core functionality and flexibility allows it to fit in a variety of environments and can help streamline the development process for all stakeholders. Next, you'll be introduced to CD and will learn how 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 CI and CD using Jenkins.

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Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins - Second Edition
Nikhil Pathania
Dec, 2017 | 362 pages
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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Title Page
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Customer Feedback
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Concepts of Continuous Integration
Concepts of Continuous Integration
Software Development Life Cycle
Waterfall model of software development
Agile to the rescue
The Scrum framework
Continuous Integration
Elements of CI
Benefits of using CI
Summary
2
Installing Jenkins
Installing Jenkins
Running Jenkins inside a servlet container
Installing a standalone Jenkins server on Windows
Installing a standalone Jenkins server on Ubuntu
Installing a standalone Jenkins server on Red Hat Linux
Running Jenkins behind a reverse proxy
Running Jenkins on Docker
Creating development and staging instances of Jenkins
Summary
3
The New Jenkins
The New Jenkins
The Jenkins setup wizard
The new Jenkins pipeline job
Declarative Pipeline syntax
Jenkins pipeline syntax utility
Multibranch pipeline
Jenkins Blue Ocean
Summary
4
Configuring Jenkins
Configuring Jenkins
The Jenkins Plugin Manager
Jenkins backup and restore
Upgrading Jenkins
User administration
Summary
5
Distributed Builds
Distributed Builds
Distributed build and test
The Jenkins Manage Nodes page
Adding Jenkins slaves – standalone Linux machine/VMs
More about the active Jenkins slave
Adding Jenkins slaves – standalone Windows machine/VMs
Adding Jenkins slaves – Docker containers
Summary
6
Installing SonarQube and Artifactory
Installing SonarQube and Artifactory
Installing and configuring SonarQube
Installing and configuring Artifactory
Summary
7
Continuous Integration Using Jenkins
Continuous Integration Using Jenkins
Jenkins CI design  
Creating the CI pipeline
Continuous Integration in action
Summary
8
Continuous Delivery Using Jenkins
Continuous Delivery Using Jenkins
Jenkins CD design
Creating a Docker image – performance testing
Creating a performance test using JMeter
The CD pipeline
CD in action
Summary
9
Continuous Deployment Using Jenkins
Continuous Deployment Using Jenkins
What is Continuous Deployment?
Creating a production server
Installing a Jenkins slave on a production server
Creating a Jenkins Continuous Deployment pipeline
Continuous Delivery in action
Summary
10
Supporting Tools and Installation Guide
Supporting Tools and Installation Guide
Exposing your localhost server to the internet
Installing Git on Windows/Linux 
Index
Index

The Jenkins Plugin Manager

Jenkins derives most of its power from plugins. Jenkins plugins are pieces of software that upon installation enhance the Jenkins functionality. A plugin that is installed inside Jenkins manifests itself as a parameter or a configurable item inside a Jenkins job or inside the Jenkins system configuration, or event as a step under the Snippet Generator (in case it's compatible with the Declarative Pipeline syntax).

The following screenshot shows the Jenkins system configuration. It's a setting to configure the SonarQube tool (a static code analysis tool). The respective configuration is available only after installing the Jenkins plugin for SonarQube:

SonarQube settings inside Jenkins system configuration

There is a special section inside Jenkins to manage plugins. In this section, we will learn how to manage plugins using the Jenkins Plugin Manager:

  1. From the Jenkins dashboard click on Manage Jenkins.
  2. Once on the Manage Jenkins page, click on Manage Plugins. You can...
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