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: False
Explanation: GitHub Copilot and LLMs such as GPT-4 have distinct primary purposes and functions. GitHub Copilot is specifically designed to assist in software development by providing code suggestions and completions, focusing primarily on programming languages. In contrast, LLMs such as GPT-4 have a broader scope, capable of generating and understanding natural language text across various contexts and applications, not limited to coding.
Correct answer: D
Explanation of incorrect answer choices: The shared libraries in Jenkins are primarily written in Groovy, a dynamic, object-oriented programming language that is closely integrated with the Java platform. Groovy provides a flexible and powerful way to write scripts that enhance and extend the capabilities of Jenkins pipelines.
Correct answer: D
Explanation of correct answer choice: Discarding old builds in Jenkins not only allows for disk space conservation but also improves Jenkins performance...