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The DevOps 2.4 Toolkit

You're reading from   The DevOps 2.4 Toolkit Continuous Deployment to Kubernetes: Continuously deploying applications with Jenkins to a Kubernetes cluster

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838643546
Length 398 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Viktor Farcic Viktor Farcic
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1. Deploying Stateful Applications at Scale 2. Enabling Process Communication with Kube API Through Service Accounts FREE CHAPTER 3. Defining Continuous Deployment 4. Packaging Kubernetes Applications 5. Distributing Kubernetes Applications 6. Installing and Setting Up Jenkins 7. Creating a Continuous Deployment Pipeline with Jenkins 8. Continuous Delivery with Jenkins and GitOps 9. Now It Is Your Turn 10. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix A: Installing kubectl and Creating a Cluster with minikube 1. Appendix B: Using Kubernetes Operations (kops)

Demystifying Declarative Pipeline through a practical example

Let's take a look at a Jenkinsfile.orig which we'll use as a base to generate Jenkinsfile that will contain the correct address of the cluster and the GitHub user.

 1  cat Jenkinsfile.orig

The output is too big for us to explore it in one go, so we'll comment on each section separately. The first in line is the options block.

...
options {
  buildDiscarder logRotator(numToKeepStr: '5')
  disableConcurrentBuilds()
}
...

The first option will result in only the last five builds being preserved in history. Most of the time there is no reason for us to keep all the builds we ever made. The last successful build of a branch is often the only one that matters. We set them to five just to prove that I'm not cheap. By discarding the old builds, we're ensuring that Jenkins will perform faster...

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