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Hands-On Continuous Integration and Delivery

By : Jean-Marcel Belmont
Book Image

Hands-On Continuous Integration and Delivery

By: Jean-Marcel Belmont

Overview of this book

Hands-On Continuous Integration and Delivery starts with the fundamentals of continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) and where it fits in the DevOps ecosystem. You will explore the importance of stakeholder collaboration as part of CI/CD. As you make your way through the chapters, you will get to grips with Jenkins UI, and learn to install Jenkins on different platforms, add plugins, and write freestyle scripts. Next, you will gain hands-on experience of developing plugins with Jenkins UI, building the Jenkins 2.0 pipeline, and performing Docker integration. In the concluding chapters, you will install Travis CI and Circle CI and carry out scripting, logging, and debugging, helping you to acquire a broad knowledge of CI/CD with Travis CI and CircleCI. By the end of this book, you will have a detailed understanding of best practices for CI/CD systems and be able to implement them with confidence.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Navigating in Jenkins Blue Ocean

Some of the views that you are accustomed to using in Jenkins Classic view are not available in Jenkins Blue Ocean. The main concept behind Jenkins Blue Ocean is to make navigation within Jenkins more accessible, and to improve the Jenkins UI in terms of better icons and page navigation. A lot of the inspiration for the new Jenkins UI is based on the book Blue Ocean Strategy that emphasizes that the world has moved on from functional developer tooling to developer experience and the new UI has aspired to improve the developer experience of Jenkins.

Pipelines view

The following screenshot depicts a pipeline view for Jenkins Blue Ocean. Note that we have two different pipelines for two different...