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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)

Jenkins plugin development

There are several steps necessary to get a Jenkins plugin set up, running, and installed.

Maven settings file

Depending on your current operating system, you will need to create/edit the .m2/settings.xml file.

Windows users will find the settings.xml file by issuing the following command in Command Prompt:

echo %USERPROFILE%\.m2\settings.xml

Mac operating system users can edit/create the settings.xml file in ~/.m2/settings.xml.

The settings element in the settings.xml file contains elements used to define values that configure Maven execution in various ways, such as pom.xml, but should not be bundled to any specific project, or distributed to an audience. These include values such as the local repository...