Book Image

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)

Creating a Jenkins project

Our next step will be to create a Jenkins project. Make sure the web shop project is completely pushed to Git (your local GitLab installation). For clarity, everything inside the Chapter06 code folder of the code samples (in the GitHub repository for this book) should be in your GitLab repository. Personally, I have put it in the web-shop repository. We have created this repository in Chapter 4, Creating A Simple JavaScript App. We have already created a Jenkins project in Chapter 2, Setting Up a CI Environment in the Configuring Jenkins section, but I will take you through some of the steps again (you should also really follow the steps in Chapter 2, Setting Up a CI Environment, as they take you through the installation of some plugins and credentials). Speaking of plugins, be mindful that a lot of plugins are created and maintained by people like you...