Hands-On Continuous Integration and Delivery

Build and release quality software at scale with Jenkins, Travis CI, and CircleCI

Jean-Marcel Belmont

• Editorial: Packt Publishing
• Año: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781789133073
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Computer Science
• Categoría: System Administration

Understand various tools and practices for building a continuous integration and delivery pipeline effectively

Key Features

• Get up and running with the patterns of continuous integration
• Learn Jenkins UI for developing plugins and build an effective Jenkins pipeline
• Automate CI/CD with command-line tools and scripts

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

• Install Jenkins on multiple operating systems
• Work with Jenkins freestyle scripts, pipeline syntax, and methodology
• Explore Travis CI build life cycle events and multiple build languages
• Master the Travis CI CLI (command-line interface) and automate tasks with the CLI
• Use CircleCI CLI jobs and work with pipelines
• Automate tasks using CircleCI CLI and learn to debug and troubleshoot
• Learn open source tooling such as Git and GitHub
• Install Docker and learn concepts in shell scripting

Who this book is for

Hands-On Continuous Integration and Delivery is for system administrators, DevOps engineers, and build and release engineers who want to understand the concept of CI and gain hands-on experience working with prominent tools in the CI ecosystem. Basic knowledge of software delivery is an added advantage.

Contributors

About the author

Jean-Marcel Belmont is a software engineer with a passion for automation and continuous integration. He is heavily involved in the open source community and frequently writes workshops on many different software development topics. He maintains a couple of meetup groups where he advocates clean code patterns and software craftsmanship.

I would like to first and foremost thank my loving and patient wife, Christine, my son, Michael, and my daughter, Gabriella, for their support, patience, and encouragement throughout the long process of writing this book. Thanks also to my close friends and family for their encouragement throughout the book.

About the reviewers

Hai Dam works as a DevOps Engineer in Netcompany, Denmark. His DevOps toolchain are Jenkins, CircleCI, ELK, AWS, and Docker.

Craig R Webster has delivered projects for clients of all sizes, ranging from small startups such as Orkell, Picklive and Tee Genius, through Notonthehighstreet, the UK Government, and the BBC. With more than 15 years of experience developing and deploying web applications, delivery pipelines, automation, and hosting platforms, Craig is able to take point on any technical project and ensure it is delivered on time, and on budget.

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