Book Image

Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins

By : Rafał Leszko
Book Image

Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins

By: Rafał Leszko

Overview of this book

The combination of Docker and Jenkins improves your Continuous Delivery pipeline using fewer resources. It also helps you scale up your builds, automate tasks and speed up Jenkins performance with the benefits of Docker containerization. This book will explain the advantages of combining Jenkins and Docker to improve the continuous integration and delivery process of app development. It will start with setting up a Docker server and configuring Jenkins on it. It will then provide steps to build applications on Docker files and integrate them with Jenkins using continuous delivery processes such as continuous integration, automated acceptance testing, and configuration management. Moving on you will learn how to ensure quick application deployment with Docker containers along with scaling Jenkins using Docker Swarm. Next, you will get to know how to deploy applications using Docker images and testing them with Jenkins. By the end of the book, you will be enhancing the DevOps workflow by integrating the functionalities of Docker and Jenkins.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Introducing Continuous Delivery

The common problem faced by most developers is how to release the implemented code quickly and safely. The delivery process used traditionally is, however, a source of pitfalls and usually leads to the disappointment of both developers and clients. This chapter presents the idea of the Continuous Delivery approach and provides the context for the rest of the book.

This chapter covers the following points:

  • Introducing the traditional delivery process and its drawbacks
  • Describing the idea of Continuous Delivery and the benefits it brings
  • Comparing how different companies deliver their software
  • Explaining the automated deployment pipeline and its phases
  • Classifying different types of tests and their place in the process
  • Pointing out the prerequisites to the successful Continuous Delivery process
  • Presenting tools that will be used throughout the book
  • Showing the complete system that will be built throughout the book