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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

Jenkins Continuous Integration Design


I have used a new term here: Continuous Integration Design. Almost every organization creates one before they even begin to explore the CI and DevOps tools. In the current section, we will go through a very general Continuous Integration Design.

Continuous Integration includes not only Jenkins or any other similar CI tool for that matter, but it also deals with how you version control your code, the branching strategy you follow, and so on. If you are feeling that we are overlapping with software configuration management, then you are right.

Various organizations may follow different kinds of strategies to achieve Continuous Integration. Since, it all depends on the project requirements and type.

The branching strategy

It's always good to have a branching strategy. Branching helps you organize your code. It is a way to isolate your working code from the code that is under development. In our Continuous Integration Design, we will start with three types...