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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

Configuring the production server


I chose an Ubuntu machine as our production server. We need to set up some software on it that will assist us while we implement Continuous Deployment. The following steps are almost same as discussed in Chapter 6, Continuous Delivery Using Jenkins, where we configured the testing server. However, we won't need the testing tools here.

Installing Java on the production server

The production server will have the Apache Tomcat server to host the application. The tool needs Java Runtime Environment running on the machine. Follow the next few steps to install Java JRE on the production server:

  1. To install Java JRE on the machine, open a Terminal and give the following commands. This will update all the current application installed on the production server:

    sudo apt-get update
    
  2. Generally, Linux OS comes shipped with Java packages. Therefore, check whether Java is already installed using the following command:

    java -version
    
  3. If the preceding command returns a Java version...