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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

Chapter 4. Continuous Integration Using Jenkins – Part I

We will begin the current chapter with a Continuous Integration Design that covers the following areas:

  • A branching strategy

  • List of tools for Continuous Integration

  • The Jenkins pipeline structure

The Continuous Integration (CI) Design will serve as a blueprint that will guide the readers in answering the how, why, and where of the Continuous Integration being implemented. The design will cover all the necessary steps involved in implementing an end-to-end CI pipeline. Therefore, due to the huge amount of information, the implementation of CI has been spread across this chapter and Chapter 5, Continuous Integration Using Jenkins – Part II.

The CI design discussed in this chapter should be considered as a template for implementing Continuous Integration and not a full and final model. The branching strategy and the tools used can be modified and replaced to suit the purpose.

We will also discuss installing and configuring Git, a popular version...