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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 use the distributed build architecture using Jenkins slaves to achieve load balancing. We can scale the Jenkins build cluster to any number of slaves by adding new Jenkins nodes and grouping them under an appropriate label. In any organization, audit plays an important role in identifying what caused an issue. This is where the Jenkins plugins named jobConfigHistory and Audit Trail come in handy. You might want to use both together. We also saw how to send notifications using the HipChat tool. We discussed how to configure Jenkins jobs to optimize disk usage by regular workspace cleanup.

Lastly, we saw how to use the Jenkins Simple Theme Plugin to make Jenkins visually appealing.