Chapter 3: Configuring Jenkins
To start any continuous delivery process, we need an automation server such as Jenkins. However, configuring Jenkins can be difficult, especially when the amount of tasks assigned to it increases over time. What's more, since Docker allows the dynamic provisioning of Jenkins agents, is it worth spending time to configure everything correctly upfront, with scalability in mind?
In this chapter, we'll present Jenkins, which can be used separately or together with Docker. We will show that the combination of these two tools produces surprisingly good results – automated configuration and flexible scalability.
This chapter will cover the following topics:
- What is Jenkins?
- Installing Jenkins
- Jenkins – Hello World
- Jenkins architecture
- Configuring agents
- Custom Jenkins images
- Configuration and management
