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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

Running Jenkins inside a container


Jenkins can be installed as a service inside the following containers:

  • Apache Geronimo 3.0

  • Glassfish

  • IBM WebSphere

  • JBoss

  • Jetty

  • Jonas

  • Liberty profile

  • Tomcat

  • WebLogic

In the current section, we will see how to install Jenkins on the Apache Tomcat server.

Installing Jenkins as a service on the Apache Tomcat server

Installing Jenkins as a service on the Apache Tomcat server is pretty simple. We can either choose to use Jenkins along with other services already present on the Apache Tomcat server, or we may use the Apache server solely for Jenkins.

Prerequisites

I assume that the Apache Tomcat server is installed on the machine where you intend to run Jenkins. In the following section, we will use the Apache Tomcat server 8.0. Nevertheless, Apache Tomcat server 5.0 or greater is sufficient to use Jenkins. A machine with 1 GB RAM is enough to start with. However, as the number of jobs and builds increase, so should the memory.

We also need Java running on the machine. In this...