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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)

Building a simple Jenkins plugin

There are a couple of prerequisites to creating a Jenkins plugin. You will need to have Java installed, which should already be installed if you have been following along. You will also need to install the Maven software project management tool (https://maven.apache.org/) as well.

Java installation

You will need to make sure that you have Java 1.6 or higher installed, and I would recommend installing Java 1.9 if you can. To install Java, please go to the Java downloads page (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html):

Make sure to click the Accept License Agreement radio button and then click Windows. Download and make sure to pick the right architecture; namely...