Chapter 7. Using Jenkins for Continuous Deployment
In this chapter, we are going to cover the following topics:
- Installing Jenkins
- Installing the Git plugin
- Installing a Jenkins slave
- Creating your first Jenkins job
- Building Docker containers using Jenkins
- Deploying a Java application to Tomcat with zero downtime using Ansible
Introduction
Continuous integration is one of the most powerful techniques you can use when developing software and it underpins a great deal of what many consider a DevOps tool-chain. Continuous integration (CI) essentially entails taking your code and building it on a frequent schedule and deploying it into a representative environment for the purpose of testing. This automated job should both build and test, if the tests are ...
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