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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)

Deploying a WAR file from Jenkins to AWS Beanstalk

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a Platform as a Service (PaaS). We will use it to deploy the PetClinic application. These are the steps you need to follow to deploy an application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk:

Getting ready

Let's create a sample application in Elastic Beanstalk to understand how Elastic Beanstalk works. Then, we will use the Jenkins plugin to deploy an application into it.

Click on Services in the AWS management console and select AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Create a new application named petclinic. Select Tomcat as a Platform and select the Sample application radio button:

Verify the sequence of events for the creation of a sample application:

It will take some time...