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Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins

You're reading from   Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins A beginner's guide to implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery using Jenkins 2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788479356
Length 362 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Nikhil Pathania Nikhil Pathania
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Preface 1. Concepts of Continuous Integration 2. Installing Jenkins FREE CHAPTER 3. The New Jenkins 4. Configuring Jenkins 5. Distributed Builds 6. Installing SonarQube and Artifactory 7. Continuous Integration Using Jenkins 8. Continuous Delivery Using Jenkins 9. Continuous Deployment Using Jenkins 10. Supporting Tools and Installation Guide

Jenkins CD design


In this section, we will go through a very general CD design.

Branching strategy

In Chapter 7, Continuous Integration Using Jenkins, we followed a branching strategy for the CI that included the following:

  • The master branch
  • The integration branch
  • The feature branch

This branching strategy is a slimmer version of the GitFlow workflow branching model.

While CI can be performed on integration/development branches or feature branches, CD is carried out only on the integration and release branches.

The release branch

Some teams go with the strategy of having a release branch. A release branch is created after a successfully-tested code goes live in production (distributed to customers) from the master branch. The purpose of creating a release branch is to support bug fixes on the respective release:

Branching strategy

CD pipeline

We are now at the heart of the CD design. We will not create a new pipeline; instead, we will build on the existing CI Multibranch Pipeline in Jenkins. The new...

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