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Mastering Jenkins

By : jmcallister -, Jonathan McAllister
Book Image

Mastering Jenkins

By: jmcallister -, Jonathan McAllister

Overview of this book

With the software industry becoming more and more competitive, organizations are now integrating delivery automation and automated quality assurance practices into their business model. Jenkins represents a complete automation orchestration system, and can help converge once segregated groups into a cohesive product development and delivery team. By mastering the Jenkins platform and learning to architect and implement Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment solutions, your organization can learn to outmanoeuvre and outpace the competition. This book will equip you with the best practices to implement advanced continuous delivery and deployment systems in Jenkins. The book begins with giving you high-level architectural fundamentals surrounding Jenkins and Continuous Integration. You will cover the different installation scenarios for Jenkins, and see how to install it as a service, as well as the advanced XML configurations. Then, you will proceed to learn more about the architecture and implementation of the Jenkins Master/Save node system, followed by creating and managing Jenkins build jobs effectively. Furthermore, you'll explore Jenkins as an automation orchestration system, followed by implementing advanced automated testing techniques. The final chapters describe in depth the common integrations to Jenkins from third-party tools such as Jira, Artifactory, Amazon EC2, and getting the most out of the Jenkins REST-based API. By the end of this book, you will have all the knowledge necessary to be the definitive resource for managing and implementing advanced Jenkins automation solutions for your organization.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering Jenkins
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 6. Software Deployments and Delivery

As the Internet of Things increases the number of connected devices, IT operations personnel have been tasked with maintaining the existing scaled infrastructure as well as engineering new and innovative approaches to deliver software without risk. On the other side of the fence, software engineers have also been busy employing new and creative techniques to increase collaboration, control costs, and decrease production deployment failures. These two seemingly equidistant efforts have led to significant advancements in the exciting field of release engineering.

One of the more recent evolutions in release engineering combines traditionally segregated IT and development resources into hybrid cross-functional DevOps teams. DevOps-oriented teams are aimed at bridging the gap between traditional operations personnel, quality assurance engineers, and software engineers, all in an effort to employ modern, delivery practices and streamline the release...