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Jenkins 2.x Continuous Integration Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Mitesh Soni, Alan Mark Berg
Book Image

Jenkins 2.x Continuous Integration Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Mitesh Soni, Alan Mark Berg

Overview of this book

Jenkins 2.x is one of the most popular Continuous Integration servers in the market today. It was designed to maintain, secure, communicate, test, build, and improve the software development process. This book will begin by guiding you through steps for installing and configuring Jenkins 2.x on AWS and Azure. This is followed by steps that enable you to manage and monitor Jenkins 2.x. You will also explore the ways to enhance the overall security of Jenkins 2.x. You will then explore the steps involved in improving the code quality using SonarQube. Then, you will learn the ways to improve quality, followed by how to run performance and functional tests against a web application and web services. Finally, you will see what the available plugins are, concluding with best practices to improve quality.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Avoiding human bottlenecks

The simpler your testing environment is, the less skill you'll need to maintain it. As you learn to use the plugins and explore the potential of new tools and scripting languages, the more knowledge the organization needs in order to maintain a stable system. If you wish to go on holidays without random text messages asking for advice, make sure that your knowledge is transferred to at least a second person. This sounds obvious, but in the rush of your daily load, this principle is often forgotten or put to one side.

One of the easiest ways to share knowledge is to send a couple of developers off to the same conferences and events together (https://www.CloudBees.com/company/events/juc). Learn best practices from Jenkins user conferences and other conferences too.

This is where managers play a significant role in knowledge dissemination. They need...