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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.

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Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins
Nikhil Pathania
May, 2016 | 542 pages
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins
Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Concepts of Continuous Integration
Concepts of Continuous Integration
The agile software development process
Continuous Integration
The best practices of Continuous Integration
How to achieve Continuous Integration
Continuous Integration benefits
Summary
2
Setting up Jenkins
Setting up Jenkins
Introduction to Jenkins
Running Jenkins inside a container
Running Jenkins as a standalone application
Sample use cases
Summary
3
Configuring Jenkins
Configuring Jenkins
Creating your first Jenkins job
Jenkins backup and restore
Upgrading Jenkins
Managing Jenkins plugins
User administration
Summary
4
Continuous Integration Using Jenkins – Part I
Continuous Integration Using Jenkins – Part I
Jenkins Continuous Integration Design
Setting up a version control system
Configuring Jenkins
The Jenkins pipeline to poll the feature branch
Summary
5
Continuous Integration Using Jenkins – Part II
Continuous Integration Using Jenkins – Part II
Installing SonarQube to check code quality
Installing Artifactory
Jenkins configuration
The Jenkins pipeline to poll the integration branch
Creating a nice visual flow for the Continuous Integration pipeline
Continuous Integration in action
Summary
6
Continuous Delivery Using Jenkins
Continuous Delivery Using Jenkins
What is Continuous Delivery?
Continuous Delivery Design
Configuring our testing server
Jenkins configuration
Creating Jenkins Continuous Delivery pipeline
Creating a nice visual flow for the Continuous Delivery pipeline
Creating a simple user acceptance test using Selenium and TestNG
Continuous Delivery in action
Summary
7
Continuous Deployment Using Jenkins
Continuous Deployment Using Jenkins
What is Continuous Deployment?
Continuous Deployment Design
Configuring the production server
Jenkins configuration
Creating the Jenkins Continuous Deployment pipeline
Creating a nice visual flow for the Continuous Delivery pipeline
Continuous Deployment in action
Summary
8
Jenkins Best Practices
Jenkins Best Practices
Distributed builds using Jenkins
Version control Jenkins configuration
Auditing in Jenkins
Notifications
Best practices for Jenkins jobs
Summary
Index
Index

Creating your first Jenkins job

In the current section, we will see how to create a Jenkins Job to clean up the %temp% directory on our Windows machine where the Jenkins master server is running. We will also configure it to send an e-mail notification. We will also see how Jenkins incorporates variables (Jenkins system variable and Windows system variable) while performing various tasks. The steps are as follows:

  1. From the Jenkins Dashboard, click on the New Item link present on the left side. This is the link to create a new Jenkins job.

  2. Name your Jenkins job Cleaning_Temp_Directory in the Item name field.

  3. Select the Freestyle project option that is present right below the Item name field.

  4. Click on the OK button to create the Jenkins job.

  5. You will be automatically redirected to the page where you can configure your Jenkins job.

    Note

    The Jenkins job name contains underscores between the words. But this is not strictly necessary, as Jenkins has its own way of dealing with blank spaces. However,...

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