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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 8. Jenkins Best Practices

This chapter is all about Jenkins best practices. We will begin the chapter with the distributed builds, where we will see how to harness the Jenkins master-slave architecture to achieve load balancing while performing builds.

We will also see how to version control Jenkins system configuration and job configuration, along with auditing Jenkins. This will give us more control over Jenkins in the event of system failures.

Next, we will see how to connect Jenkins with communication tools to send notifications. This will give us an edge over the older e-mail-based notification system.

Lastly, we will discuss some other best practices related to Jenkins jobs and Jenkins updates. If some of you are not happy with the Jenkins GUI, there is section at the end to install Jenkins themes.

These are the important topics that we will cover in this chapter:

  • Creating a build farm using Jenkins slaves

  • Installing and configuring a jobConfigHistory plugin to version control Jenkins...