Connect Jira with continuous deployment tools

In this recipe, we are going to learn how to integrate Jira with CD tools to view deployment status. In Chapter 4, we learned that Continuous Integration (CI) is the practice of making incremental improvements or changes to a code base and automating the testing and validation of those code changes.

CD can be considered an extension of CI that handles the automated infrastructure provisioning and application release process.

The objectives for this recipe are as follows:

• Associate a GitLab repository with a Jira project
• Add the Jira integration to the GitLab SaaS application
• Perform updates to the code base, execute a merge request, and deploying the code
• See the GitLab deployment reflected in the Jira project and issue

Getting ready

To execute this recipe, you will need the following:

• Jira administration permissions in order to add the GitLab application
• A GitLab account and repository with...