Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited

By: Nikhil Pathania

Paid access

|Jun 2024

E-Book €39.99Institutions €137.95

Description

Key Features

Speed up and increase software productivity and software delivery using Jenkins
Automate your build, integration, release, and deployment processes with Jenkins—and learn how continuous integration (CI) can save you time and money
Explore the power of continuous delivery using Jenkins through powerful real-life examples

Book Description

In past few years, Agile software development has seen tremendous growth across the world. There is huge demand for software delivery solutions that are fast yet flexible to frequent amendments. As a result, CI and continuous delivery methodologies are gaining popularity. Jenkins’ core functionality and flexibility allows it to fit in a variety of environments and can help streamline the development process for all stakeholders.
This book starts off by explaining the concepts of CI and its significance in the Agile world with a whole chapter dedicated to it. Next, you’ll learn to configure and set up Jenkins. You’ll gain a foothold in implementing CI and continuous delivery methods. We dive into the various features offered by Jenkins one by one exploiting them for CI.
After that, you’ll find out how to use the built-in pipeline feature of Jenkins. You’ll see how to integrate Jenkins with code analysis tools and test automation tools in order to achieve continuous delivery. Next, you’ll be introduced to continuous deployment and learn to achieve it using Jenkins.
Through this book’s wealth of best practices and real-world tips, you'll discover how easy it is to implement a CI service with Jenkins.

What you will learn

Take advantage of a continuous delivery solution to achieve faster software delivery
Speed up productivity using a continuous Integration solution through Jenkins
Understand the concepts of CI and continuous delivery
Orchestrate many DevOps tools using Jenkins to automate builds, releases, deployment, and testing
Explore the various features of Jenkins that make DevOps activities a piece of cake
Configure multiple build machines in Jenkins to maintain load balancing
Manage users, projects, and permissions in Jenkins to ensure better security
Leverage the power of plugins in Jenkins

Who this book is for

This book is for anyone who wants to exploit the power of Jenkins. This book servers a great starting point for those who are in the field DevOps and would like to leverage the benefits of CI and continuous delivery in order to increase productivity and reduce delivery time.