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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)

The web shop specs

Before we get started, we will have to know what we are going to build. Since we are super agile, we only need a basic outline (I used agile as an excuse not to write specs):

  • Home page: First, of course, we will need a home page. The home page is very basic and shows us what other people have been buying. These are tiles that show an image, name, and price.
  • Search page: When you search for a product, you get to the search page where you can filter by category and sort your results. The page will show us images, names, categories, prices, and a short description of all the products that match your criteria. From here, you can place any product in your cart if you are logged in. A user can search for products on any page.
  • Product page: When you click on a product, either from the home page or the search page, you will be taken to the product page, which is also...