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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

The new Jenkins pipeline job


Those who are already familiar with Jenkins are well aware of the freestyle Jenkins job. The classic way of creating a pipeline in Jenkins is by using the freestyle job, wherein each CI stage is represented using a Jenkins job (freestyle).

The Jenkins freestyle job is a web-based, GUI-propelled configuration. Any modification to the CI pipeline requires you to log in to Jenkins and reconfigure each of the Jenkins freestyle jobs.

The concept of Pipeline as Code rethinks the way we create a CI pipeline. The idea is to write the whole CI/CD pipeline as a code that offers some level of programming and that can be version controlled.

The following are some of the advantages of taking the Pipeline as Code route:

  • It's programmable
  • All of your CI/CD pipeline configurations can be described using just a single file (Jenkinsfile)
  • It's version controllable, just like any other code
  • It comes with an option to define your pipeline using the Declarative Pipeline syntax, which is...
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