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Hands-On Continuous Integration and Delivery

You're reading from   Hands-On Continuous Integration and Delivery Build and release quality software at scale with Jenkins, Travis CI, and CircleCI

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789130485
Length 416 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jean-Marcel Belmont Jean-Marcel Belmont
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Preface 1. CI/CD with Automated Testing FREE CHAPTER 2. Basics of Continuous Integration 3. Basics of Continuous Delivery 4. The Business Value of CI/CD 5. Installation and Basics of Jenkins 6. Writing Freestyle Scripts 7. Developing Plugins 8. Building Pipelines with Jenkins 9. Installation and Basics of Travis CI 10. Travis CI CLI Commands and Automation 11. Travis CI UI Logging and Debugging 12. Installation and Basics of CircleCI 13. CircleCI CLI Commands and Automation 14. CircleCI UI Logging and Debugging 15. Best Practices 16. Assessments 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Comparing CircleCI and Jenkins

Jenkins is a self-contained and open source automation server that is customizable and requires setup and configuration at the organization level. Remember in the Jenkins CI chapters, we spent some time installing Jenkins in the Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems. We also had the ability to configure Jenkins however we wanted. While this is great for software companies with dedicated teams in operations, DevOps, and so on, it is not as great for open source projects where often lone developers are setting up environments for their personal projects.

CircleCI was designed around the principle of open source development and for ease of use. CircleCI can be set up within minutes of creating a project in the GitHub and Bitbucket platforms. Although CircleCI is not as customizable as Jenkins CI in this respect, it has the distinct advantage of...

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