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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)

Getting approval for CI/CD from your stakeholders

Even when stressing the importance of automation and educating your stakeholders on its importance, you might need to take action without official approval. Many software projects have started as a skunkworks project that a sole developer worked on without official approval. A developer can also work on a deployment pipeline automation task on his local machine or an unused machine if need be.

Starting a skunkworks project

The origins of the term skunkworks project is open for debate, but the general idea is that it is a project that is worked on in secret by a select individual or select individuals that is intended to bring innovation and change to an organization. It is...