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The DevOps 2.4 Toolkit

By : Viktor Farcic
Book Image

The DevOps 2.4 Toolkit

By: Viktor Farcic

Overview of this book

Building on The DevOps 2.3 Toolkit: Kubernetes, Viktor Farcic brings his latest exploration of the Docker technology as he records his journey to continuously deploying applications with Jenkins into a Kubernetes cluster. The DevOps 2.4 Toolkit: Continuously Deploying Applications with Jenkins to a Kubernetes Cluster is the latest book in Viktor Farcic’s series that helps you build a full DevOps Toolkit. This book guides readers through the process of building, testing, and deploying applications through fully automated pipelines. Within this book, Viktor will cover a wide-range of emerging topics, including an exploration of continuous delivery and deployment in Kubernetes using Jenkins. It also shows readers how to perform continuous integration inside these clusters, and discusses the distribution of Kubernetes applications, as well as installing and setting up Jenkins. Work with Viktor and dive into the creation of self-adaptive and self-healing systems within Docker.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Now It Is Your Turn

Consulting global pipeline libraries documentation

We already saw that we can open a repository with global pipeline libraries and consult the functions to find out what they do. While the developer in me prefers that option, many might find it too complicated and might prefer something more "non-developer friendly". Fortunately, there is an alternative way to document and consult libraries.

Let's go back to the forked repository with the libraries.

 1  open
"https://github.com/$GH_USER/jenkins-shared-libraries/tree/master/vars"

If you pay closer attention, you'll notice that all Groovy files with names that start with k8s have an accompanying txt file. Let's take a closer look at one of them.

 1  curl "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/$GH_USER/jenkins-shared-
libraries/master/vars/k8sBuildImageBeta.txt"

The output is as follows...