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Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins

By : Nikhil Pathania
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Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins

By: Nikhil Pathania

Overview of this book

In past few years, Agile software development has seen tremendous growth across the world. There is huge demand for software delivery solutions that are fast yet flexible to frequent amendments. As a result, CI and continuous delivery methodologies are gaining popularity. Jenkins’ core functionality and flexibility allows it to fit in a variety of environments and can help streamline the development process for all stakeholders. This book starts off by explaining the concepts of CI and its significance in the Agile world with a whole chapter dedicated to it. Next, you’ll learn to configure and set up Jenkins. You’ll gain a foothold in implementing CI and continuous delivery methods. We dive into the various features offered by Jenkins one by one exploiting them for CI. After that, you’ll find out how to use the built-in pipeline feature of Jenkins. You’ll see how to integrate Jenkins with code analysis tools and test automation tools in order to achieve continuous delivery. Next, you’ll be introduced to continuous deployment and learn to achieve it using Jenkins. Through this book’s wealth of best practices and real-world tips, you'll discover how easy it is to implement a CI service with Jenkins.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we saw how to configure some of the basic but important stuff in Jenkins, all with the help of some practical examples. We created a few Jenkins jobs and also wrote some simple scripts inside it.

Jenkins upgrade, Jenkins backup, and Jenkins user management are some of the important things we discussed in this chapter. However, if you think that you can perform these respective tasks in a better way, incorporating some more options that you encountered in Jenkins, then the objective of this chapter has been achieved.

The idea is that any particular task simple or complex can be performed in many ways using Jenkins. All that matters is how creative you are with the features provided by the tool.