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Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment

By : Sander Rossel
Book Image

Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment

By: Sander Rossel

Overview of this book

The challenge faced by many teams while implementing Continuous Deployment is that it requires the use of many tools and processes that all work together. Learning and implementing all these tools (correctly) takes a lot of time and effort, leading people to wonder whether it's really worth it. This book sets up a project to show you the different steps, processes, and tools in Continuous Deployment and the actual problems they solve. We start by introducing Continuous Integration (CI), deployment, and delivery as well as providing an overview of the tools used in CI. You'll then create a web app and see how Git can be used in a CI environment. Moving on, you'll explore unit testing using Jasmine and browser testing using Karma and Selenium for your app. You'll also find out how to automate tasks using Gulp and Jenkins. Next, you'll get acquainted with database integration for different platforms, such as MongoDB and PostgreSQL. Finally, you'll set up different Jenkins jobs to integrate with Node.js and C# projects, and Jenkins pipelines to make branching easier. By the end of the book, you'll have implemented Continuous Delivery and deployment from scratch.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Newman

Now that we have our Postman tests, complete in a collection with environments, we probably want to automate our tests. In Jenkins, this works pretty much the same as our Selenium tests; make sure your web service is running somewhere and run the tests using the command line. The problem is that Postman is a desktop application and we cannot run it from the command line. Not without Newman, that is (https://github.com/postmanlabs/newman). You can install Newman using npm:

npm install newman --save-dev
npm install newman -g

Before we can use Newman, we must do two things: export our collection and export our environment(s). We can start with the collection. Go to your collections in Postman and click the button with three dots. From the menu, choose Export. You will now get a popup asking if you want to save as v1 or v2; choose v2 (as recommended by the popup). I have saved...