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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.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

What is Continuous Deployment?


The process of continuously deploying production-ready features into the production environment, or to the end user, is termed as Continuous Deployment.

Continuous Deployment in a holistic sense means, the process of making production-ready features go live instantly without any intervention. This includes building features in an agile manner, integrating and testing them continuously, and deploying them into the production environment without any breaks.

Continuous Deployment in a literal sense means, the task of deploying any given package continuously in any given environment. Therefore, the task of deploying packages into a testing server and a production server conveys the literal meaning of Continuous Deployment.

How Continuous Deployment is different from Continuous Delivery

First, the features are developed, and then they go through a cycle, or Continuous Integration, or through testing of all kinds. Anything that passes the various tests is considered...