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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)

Installing .NET Core and Visual Studio Code

The first thing we need to do before we get to work is install the .NET Core SDK. Head over to https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/core to download the latest version. I have used version 2.0, but I am assuming Microsoft is keeping things backward compatible. As said, I am using this on Windows so I am assuming you are also using Windows, but it should work on Linux just as well. Installation of the .NET Core SDK is straightforward.

Once you have followed the installation wizard and installed .NET Core, it is time to install Visual Studio Code (VS Code). Head over to https://code.visualstudio.com/ to install the latest version of VS Code for your platform. Again, installation is straightforward. By the way, you are free to use the full Visual Studio (Community Edition) if you like. The main point of this chapter is the code, not the...