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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 CI introduction

Travis CI is a hosted and automated solution for CI builds. Travis CI uses an in-application configuration file that uses YAML (http://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html) syntax, which we will go over in more detail later in this chapter. Since Travis CI is hosted in the cloud, it therefore has the advantage that it can quickly be used in other environments and different operating systems without us worrying about setup and installation. This means that Travis CI setup is much faster than Jenkins.

Comparing Travis CI and Jenkins

Jenkins is a self-contained and open source automation server that is customizable and requires setup and configuration at the organization level. Remember, in the Jenkins CI chapters...