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Practical Jenkins [Video]

By : Anirban Saha
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Book Image

Practical Jenkins [Video]

5 (1)
By: Anirban Saha

Overview of this book

Setting up Jenkins and running build jobs is not enough for a production infrastructure. For optimal performance and results, architecting, designing, and implementing a production-grade Jenkins deployment is essential. This course gets you up and running with Jenkins and enables you to deliver an optimal Jenkins deployment. On your journey, you will explore and configure features such as high availability, security, monitoring, and backing up/restoring data, which are basically all of the things you need to implementing a scalable and production grade infrastructure. You will also learn how to implement distributed builds, automate build pipelines, and integrate your Jenkins deployment with external services, thus showing you how to increase your team's productivity with pipeline as a code building advanced pipelines faster and easier. By the end of this video course, you will be able to automate, implement, secure, and manage your Jenkins deployment in no time. The code bundle for this video course is available at - https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Practical-Jenkins-V- This course uses Jenkins 2.89.3, while not the latest version available, it provides relevant and informative content for legacy users of Jenkins.
Table of Contents (5 chapters)
Chapter 2
High-availability, Monitoring, and Management of Jenkins Deployments
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Section 4
Implementing Security and Roles for Jenkins
With bigger deployments, comes bigger risk of data and permission abuse including accidental actions causing widespread damage. The only way to check these situations is by implementing correct security measures and role-based access control. - Explore best practices in security and advanced authentication mechanisms - Configure LDAP based security realm for authentication - Manage access control using role-based authorization strategy