Together, continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) form the CI/CD pipeline, which is the foundation of the modern DevOps environment. This pipeline aims to automate your software delivery process by removing manual actions and enabling teams to iterate quickly. It essentially provides repeatable specifications for the steps that must be performed to deliver a new feature or version of the software product. Understanding CI/CD is crucial for keeping up in today’s software-driven world.
CI forms the first part of the pipeline and is typically required for progressing to CD. It is a software development practice where developers are required to integrate code into a shared repository multiple times per day in the hopes of getting rapid feedback. Once developers commit code changes to the central repository, the CI server builds the system and runs unit tests, then informs the team of its failure or success.
Jenkins is an open source service that automates monotonous routine tasks associated with software development like continuous integration, delivery, and testing. Automating tasks with Jenkins means quicker software development and DevOps work.
» Automated builds: Freestyle project, working with Git, scheduled builds and up/downstream jobs.
» Configure and run builds in Jenkins from GitHub.
» Build a Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment pipeline.
» Integrate Jenkins with AWS.
» Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) concepts.
» Jenkins quick start: Jenkins architecture, installation and configuration.
In agile development practices, developers need to integrate their work frequently to fix bugs or to create a new feature or functionality. Jenkins is used specifically for continuous integration, helping to enforce the principles of agile development.
Jenkins is one of the most popular and leading Continuous Integration servers on the market today. This popularity is because, it is an open source project and a very flexible tool, which you can easily use it to automate all of the steps of your software delivery process on any platform. It is designed to maintain, secure, communicate, test, build, and improve the software development process. Setting up Jenkins and running build jobs is not enough for a production infrastructure.
This comprehensive 2-in-1 course a modular and highly interactive approach, providing a general introduction and explanatory, hands-on content. You’ll start off with configuring Jenkins effectively to work with Git in building and testing your software. You’ll discover the process of using Jenkins to build, test, and package Java applications. You’ll also learn about the extensible features of Jenkins with automated deployment on a cloud platform.
By the end of the course, you’ll be able to set up the stage for a DevOps culture by learning Continuous Integration, automating your Jenkins projects and getting continuous feedback for your upstream & downstream projects!