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Hands-On Continuous Integration and Delivery

By : Jean-Marcel Belmont
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Hands-On Continuous Integration and Delivery

By: Jean-Marcel Belmont

Overview of this book

Hands-On Continuous Integration and Delivery starts with the fundamentals of continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) and where it fits in the DevOps ecosystem. You will explore the importance of stakeholder collaboration as part of CI/CD. As you make your way through the chapters, you will get to grips with Jenkins UI, and learn to install Jenkins on different platforms, add plugins, and write freestyle scripts. Next, you will gain hands-on experience of developing plugins with Jenkins UI, building the Jenkins 2.0 pipeline, and performing Docker integration. In the concluding chapters, you will install Travis CI and Circle CI and carry out scripting, logging, and debugging, helping you to acquire a broad knowledge of CI/CD with Travis CI and CircleCI. By the end of this book, you will have a detailed understanding of best practices for CI/CD systems and be able to implement them with confidence.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Travis CLI installation

The first prerequisite to install Travis CLI is to have Ruby (https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/installation/) installed on your OS and make sure that it is version 1.9.3 or greater.

You can check that you have Ruby installed by running the following command in a command shell or Terminal:

Windows installation

The Travis CLI user documentation at https://github.com/travis-ci/travis.rb#windows recommends that you use the RubyInstaller (http://rubyinstaller.org/) to install the latest version of Ruby on the Windows OS.

We need to pick Ruby Devkit version 2.5.1 at the RubyInstaller download site and then make sure to accept the license agreement and then choose the appropriate options for the...