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Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins - Second Edition

By : Rafał Leszko
Book Image

Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins - Second Edition

By: Rafał Leszko

Overview of this book

Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins, Second Edition will explain the advantages of combining Jenkins and Docker to improve the continuous integration and delivery process of an app development. It will start with setting up a Docker server and configuring Jenkins on it. It will then provide steps to build applications on Docker files and integrate them with Jenkins using continuous delivery processes such as continuous integration, automated acceptance testing, and configuration management. Moving on, you will learn how to ensure quick application deployment with Docker containers along with scaling Jenkins using Kubernetes. Next, you will get to know how to deploy applications using Docker images and testing them with Jenkins. Towards the end, the book will touch base with missing parts of the CD pipeline, which are the environments and infrastructure, application versioning, and nonfunctional testing. By the end of the book, you will be enhancing the DevOps workflow by integrating the functionalities of Docker and Jenkins.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Installing Ansible


Ansible is an open source, agentless automation engine for software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment. Its first release was in 2012, and its basic version is free for both personal and commercial use. The enterprise version, called Ansible Tower, provides GUI management and dashboards, the REST API, role-based access control, and some more features.

We will present the installation process and a description of how Ansible can be used separately, as well as in conjunction with Docker.

Ansible server requirements

Ansible uses the SSH protocol for communication and has no special requirements regarding the machine it manages. There is also no central master server, so it's enough to install the Ansible client tool anywhere; we can then already use it to manage the whole infrastructure.

Note

The only requirement for the machines being managed is to have the Python tool (and obviously, the SSH server) installed. These tools are, however, almost...