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

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

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

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Summary

In the current chapter, we embarked on a detailed journey to understand and define CD. We began by exploring two strategies for CD: universal CI with master-only CD and the integrated model of universal CI and CD. In the process, we delved into the core concepts of GitOps and its intrinsic connection to CD. Our planning phase focused on the intricacies of high-level CD architecture, examining the Helm chart for our web application and establishing a foundation for both staging and production environments. This setup entailed creating namespaces and secrets in AKS, configuring insecure registries, and more.

Subsequently, we navigated the installation and configuration of Argo CD and its integration with Jenkins to bolster automation capabilities. Among other skills, we mastered creating an Argo CD user and generating its associated token. Additionally, we honed our ability to seamlessly link a GitHub repository to Argo CD, optimizing application management within the platform...