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Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins - Second Edition

By : Rafał Leszko
Book Image

Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins - Second Edition

By: Rafał Leszko

Overview of this book

Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins, Second Edition will explain the advantages of combining Jenkins and Docker to improve the continuous integration and delivery process of an 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 Kubernetes. Next, you will get to know how to deploy applications using Docker images and testing them with Jenkins. Towards the end, the book will touch base with missing parts of the CD pipeline, which are the environments and infrastructure, application versioning, and nonfunctional testing. By the end of the book, you will be enhancing the DevOps workflow by integrating the functionalities of Docker and Jenkins.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Questions


To verify the knowledge acquired from this chapter, please answer the following questions:

  1. What is a pipeline?
  2. What is the difference between stage and step in the pipeline?
  3. What is the post section in the Jenkins pipeline?
  4. What are the three most fundamental stages of the commit pipeline?
  5. What is Jenkinsfile?
  6. What is the purpose of the code coverage stage?
  7. What is the difference between the following Jenkins triggers—External and Polling SCM?
  8. What are the most common Jenkins notification methods? Name at least three.
  9. What are the three most common development workflows?
  10. What is a feature toggle?