You're reading from Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins An end-to-end guide to creating operational, secure, resilient, and cost-effective CI/CD processes

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835087732

Length 396 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

Jenkins

Concepts

Continuous Integration

Author (1):

Nikhil Pathania

Preface

1. Part 1: The Concepts FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: The What, How, and Why of Continuous Integration

3. Part 2: Engineering the CI Ecosystem

4. Chapter 2: Planning, Deploying, and Maintaining Jenkins

5. Chapter 3: Securing Jenkins

6. Chapter 4: Extending Jenkins

7. Chapter 5: Scaling Jenkins

8. Part 3: Crafting the CI Pipeline

9. Chapter 6: Enhancing Jenkins Pipeline Vocabulary

10. Chapter 7: Crafting AI-Powered Pipeline Code

11. Chapter 8: Setting the Stage for Writing Your First CI Pipeline

12. Chapter 9: Writing Your First CI Pipeline

13. Part 4: Crafting the CD Pipeline

14. Chapter 10: Planning for Continuous Deployment

15. Chapter 11: Writing Your First CD Pipeline

16. Chapter 12: Enhancing Your CI/CD Pipelines

17. Index

18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Answers

Correct answer: A
Explanation:
The Jenkins plugin for GitHub must be installed first to enable the integration. Then, a personal access token is created on GitHub, which is used for authenticating Jenkins with GitHub. This token is added to Jenkins as a secret text credential. Only after these steps are completed can the final configuration in Jenkins’ global settings be performed, establishing the full integration.
Correct answer: False
Explanation:
The GitHub plugin for Jenkins does indeed provide seamless integration with GitHub pull requests. It allows Jenkins to automatically build and validate code changes proposed in pull requests.
Correct answer: B
Explanation:
The Jenkins plugin for SonarQube must be installed first to enable the integration. Then, a personal access token is created on SonarQube, which is used for authenticating Jenkins with SonarQube. This token is added to Jenkins as a secret text credential. Only after these steps are completed can...