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Mastering Jenkins

By : jmcallister -, Jonathan McAllister
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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.

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Mastering Jenkins
jmcallister - | Jonathan McAllister
Oct, 2015 | 334 pages
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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering Jenkins
Mastering Jenkins
Credits
Credits
Foreword
Foreword
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Setup and Configuration of Jenkins
Setup and Configuration of Jenkins
The Jenkins platform architecture and configuration techniques
Jenkins on Microsoft Windows
Jenkins on Linux and UNIX
Running Jenkins behind an NGINX reverse proxy
Running Jenkins behind an Apache reverse proxy
Disaster recovery in Jenkins
Jenkins on Mac OS X
Summary
2
Distributed Builds – Master/Slave Mode
Distributed Builds – Master/Slave Mode
Understanding the master and slave architecture
Choosing a launch method
Administering Jenkins slaves
Labels, groups, and load balancing
Summary
3
Creating Views and Jobs in Jenkins
Creating Views and Jobs in Jenkins
The Jenkins user interface
Jobs in Jenkins
Creating views
Summary
4
Managing Views and Jobs in Jenkins
Managing Views and Jobs in Jenkins
Managing Views in Jenkins
Navigating a job's project page
Job execution
The Job Execution Configuration panel
The Status panel
The Console Output
Summary
5
Advanced Automated Testing
Advanced Automated Testing
Quality assurance initiatives and test automation terminology
The Software Development Lifecycle
Connecting product codes to tests
Baking quality into the product
Automated testing in Jenkins
Unit tests in Jenkins through MSTest
Distributed testing solutions
Summary
6
Software Deployments and Delivery
Software Deployments and Delivery
Standardizing build outputs
Implementing a Definitive Media Library
Automated deployments
Summary
7
Build Pipelines
Build Pipelines
The value proposition of build pipelines
Architecting a build pipeline
Implementing build pipelines in Jenkins
Summary
8
Continuous Practices
Continuous Practices
Kaizen – Continuous Improvement
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Deployment
Summary
9
Integrating Jenkins with Other Technologies
Integrating Jenkins with Other Technologies
Jenkins and Docker – Linux guide
Integrating Jenkins with Ansible – Linux and Windows
Jenkins and Artifactory
Jenkins and Selenium Grid
Jenkins and Jira
Summary
10
Extending Jenkins
Extending Jenkins
Setting up the development environment
Creating a Jenkins plugin skeleton
The plugin skeleton
Importing a Maven-generated skeleton into IntelliJ
The architecture of Jenkins plugins
Jelly tags and files
Compiling and installing an HPI plugin
Summary
Index
Index

About the Reviewers

Thomas Dao has worked in the IT industry for over two decades. His domains include Unix administration, Build/Release, Java/Android development, and so on.

Takafumi Ikeda works as a sales engineer at GitHub. Before joining GitHub, he worked as a scrum master and a DevOps for many projects. Takafumi is also the author of a book that focused on DevOps. This book received an award in the Japanese market in 2014, and was also translated into Chinese and Korean and published in the Asian market. He has made several presentations as a speaker at several technical conferences in Japan and other Asian countries.

Stefan Lapers started his career almost 20 years ago as an IT support engineer. Thereafter, he quickly grew into Linux/Unix system engineering and software development.

Over the years, he accumulated experience in deploying and maintaining hosted application solutions while working for reputed customers such as MTV, TMF, and many others. In recent years, he was involved in multiple development projects and their delivery as a service on the Internet.

He enjoys spending his spare time with his family and in building and flying remote-controlled helicopters.

Riddhi M. Sharma is a senior software engineer and a technology enthusiast at Physicians Interactive. She holds extensive experience that encompasses multiple areas of technology, such as Cloud, Agile (Continuous Integration/Delivery), and software development. Riddhi is also focused on digital marketing research/strategy and growth hacking and has expertise in Salesforce's exact target marketing platform. He loves to explore product ideas, connect to the community at technical events, and speak on emerging technologies.

I would like to thank Jonathan McAllister for his passion and valuable contribution to the Jenkins community with his excellent book called Mastering Jenkins. I would also like to thank the entire Packt team for their great efforts on this book and high standards of work.

Donald Simpson is an information technology consultant based in Scotland, UK.He specializes in helping organizations improve the quality, and reduce the cost, of software development through build automation. Donald has also designed and implemented continuous integration solutions for a broad range of companies and agile projects. He can be reached at www.donaldsimpson.co.uk.

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