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Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins - Second Edition

By : Rafał Leszko
Book Image

Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins - Second Edition

By: Rafał Leszko

Overview of this book

Continuous Delivery with Docker and Jenkins, Second Edition will explain the advantages of combining Jenkins and Docker to improve the continuous integration and delivery process of an app development. It will start with setting up a Docker server and configuring Jenkins on it. It will then provide steps to build applications on Docker files and integrate them with Jenkins using continuous delivery processes such as continuous integration, automated acceptance testing, and configuration management. Moving on, you will learn how to ensure quick application deployment with Docker containers along with scaling Jenkins using Kubernetes. Next, you will get to know how to deploy applications using Docker images and testing them with Jenkins. Towards the end, the book will touch base with missing parts of the CD pipeline, which are the environments and infrastructure, application versioning, and nonfunctional testing. By the end of the book, you will be enhancing the DevOps workflow by integrating the functionalities of Docker and Jenkins.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

What is Jenkins?


Jenkins is an open source automation server written in Java. With very active community-based support and a huge number of plugins, it is the most popular tool for implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery processes. Formerly known as Hudson, it was renamed after Oracle bought Hudson and decided to develop it as proprietary software. Jenkins was forked from Hudson, but remained open-source under the MIT license. It is highly valued for its simplicity, flexibility, and versatility.

Jenkins outshines other Continuous Integration tools and is the most widely used software of its kind. That's all possible because of its features and capabilities.

Let's walk-through the most interesting parts of Jenkins' characteristics:

  • Language agnostic: Jenkins has a lot of plugins, which support most programming languages and frameworks. Moreover, since it can use any shell command and any software, it is suitable for every automation process imaginable.
  • Extensible by plugins...