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Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment

By : Sander Rossel
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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)

Installing Node.js and npm

For this project, we are going to use the packages Bootstrap and Angular.js. We can install these through npm. npm is the Node.js Package Manager, so we need to install Node.js and get npm for free. In the next chapters, we are going to use Node.js as well as more npm.

Node.js is a JavaScript runtime. JavaScript, traditionally, could only be executed on your browser. That poses a problem when you want to automate your JavaScript tests. You really do not want a browser every time you test, lint, or minify.

Node.js makes it possible to run JavaScript outside your browser. It starts up a local server (that can be exposed to the outside world) and runs JavaScript. Node.js is currently a popular alternative for Apache, IIS, and Nginx. In order to automate our JavaScript tests, we will need Node.js. Additionally, we will create a web application using Node...