Build, Deployment, and Test pipeline

In the last section, we have learned how to create a container like Apache Tomcat with Docker and how to deploy an application in the running container. Once the application is up and running, we can run some automated tests to verify the functionality. That should be easy! What else can be done? Well, throughout this book we have learned how to automate the build process with Gradle; also in Chapter 7, Continuous Integration, we discussed continuous integration tools, such as Jenkins. Now we should be able to apply all these knowledge to create a simple build, deploy, and test workflow to automate the complete process from build to deployment. Do not get confused with the continuous delivery pipeline. This is just a simple example to automate the build, deployment, and test together with tools, such as Gradle, Docker, and Jenkins. We can set up the pipeline with three simple steps:

• Automate the process of creating or building the artifacts with Gradle...