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Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins - Second Edition

By : Nikhil Pathania
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Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins - Second Edition

By: Nikhil Pathania

Overview of this book

In past few years, agile software development has seen tremendous growth. There is a huge demand for software delivery solutions that are fast yet flexible to numerous amendments. As a result, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) methodologies are gaining popularity. This book starts off by explaining the concepts of CI and its significance in the Agile. Next, you'll learn how to configure and set up Jenkins in many different ways. The book exploits the concept of "pipeline as code" and various other features introduced in the Jenkins 2.x release to their full potential. We also talk in detail about the new Jenkins Blue Ocean interface and the features that help to quickly and easily create a CI pipeline. Then we dive into the various features offered by Jenkins one by one, exploiting them for CI and CD. Jenkins' core functionality and flexibility allows it to fit in a variety of environments and can help streamline the development process for all stakeholders. Next, you'll be introduced to CD and will learn how to achieve it using Jenkins. Through this book's wealth of best practices and real-world tips, you'll discover how easy it is to implement CI and CD using Jenkins.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we learned how to install Jenkins on an Apache Tomcat server and as a standalone application on various operating systems. We also learned how to set up a reverse proxy server (Nginx) in front of our Jenkins server and secured the connection using SSL.

Above all, we learned how to run Jenkins on Docker. We also saw the advantages of using data volumes on Docker and learned how to leverage them to create on-demand instances (development or staging) of our Jenkins server.

The main objective of the current chapter was to show the readers how diverse Jenkins is in many ways when it comes to the installation process and the variety of operating systems that it supports. The Jenkins administration will be discussed in Chapter 4, Configuring Jenkins.

In the next chapter, we will have a quick overview of what's new in Jenkins 2.x.