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DevOps for Web Development

By : Mitesh Soni
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DevOps for Web Development

By: Mitesh Soni

Overview of this book

The DevOps culture is growing at a massive rate, as many organizations are adopting it. However, implementing it for web applications is one of the biggest challenges experienced by many developers and admins, which this book will help you overcome using various tools, such as Chef, Docker, and Jenkins. On the basis of the functionality of these tools, the book is divided into three parts. The first part shows you how to use Jenkins 2.0 for Continuous Integration of a sample JEE application. The second part explains the Chef configuration management tool, and provides an overview of Docker containers, resource provisioning in cloud environments using Chef, and Configuration Management in a cloud environment. The third part explores Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment in AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Docker, all using Jenkins 2.0. This book combines the skills of both web application deployment and system configuration as each chapter contains one or more practical hands-on projects. You will be exposed to real-world project scenarios that are progressively presented from easy to complex solutions. We will teach you concepts such as hosting web applications, configuring a runtime environment, monitoring and hosting on various cloud platforms, and managing them. This book will show you how to essentially host and manage web applications along with Continuous Integration, Cloud Computing, Configuration Management, Continuous Monitoring, Continuous Delivery, and Deployment.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
DevOps for Web Development
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Prerequisites – deploying our application on Remote Server


Our main objective is to deploy application in a web server. Web server and application server can be on local environment or remote environment. We will first deploy on a remote server. We will try to use Windows Agent for compilation and deployment to see how Agent-based architecture can be utilized. Follow these steps to deploy an application on a remote server:

  1. First, let's start an agent on a Windows machine. Open command prompt and run the following command, given in the Manage Nodes section of the Jenkins dashboard. Change the URL accordingly:

    java -jar slave.jar -jnlpUrl http://192.168.0.100:8080/computer/TestServer/slave-agent.jnlp -secret 65464e02c58c85b192883f7848ad2758408220bed2f3af715c01c9b01cb72f9b
    .
    .
    INFO: Trying protocol: JNLP2-connect
    Jul 06, 2016 8:57:16 PM hudson.remoting.jnlp.Main$CuiListener status
    INFO: Connected
    

  2. Our agent is now connected to the master. Let's verify the status of the agent on the master node...