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Hands-On Continuous Integration and Delivery

By : Jean-Marcel Belmont
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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)

Pipeline Syntax

The Pipeline Syntax has two forms (https://jenkins.io/doc/book/pipeline/syntax/#declarative-pipeline):

  • Declarative Pipeline
  • Scripted Pipeline

The difference between the two forms is that the Declarative Pipeline syntax is meant to be a simpler syntax than the Scripted Pipeline. The Scripted Pipeline syntax is a DSL, that follows the Groovy programming language semantics.

Pipeline Editor

In the cucumber-examples repository, we created a Jenkinsfile by using the Pipeline Editor. You can actually write the Jenkinsfile without using the Pipeline Editor, although I would recommend using it to debug a pipeline script as the editor has some nice features.

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