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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)

Travis CI prerequisites

In order to get started with Travis CI, you will need to create a GitHub account, which you can do at GitHub (https://github.com/).

Creating a GitHub account

Look at the screenshot—all that you have to do is provide a Username, Email, and Password, then click the Sign up for GitHub button:

For the purposes of this chapter, we will create a GitHub username called packtci. Once you click the Sign up for GitHub button, you will be taken to the following page:

Notice here that you can create an unlimited amount of public repositories in GitHub for free, while private repositories require a monthly subscription fee. Once you click the Continue button you will be redirected to the following page...