Pathania - Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins

BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI

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First published: May 2016

Second edition: December 2017

Production reference: 1191217

ISBN 978-1-78847-935-6

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Nikhil Pathania is currently practicing DevOps at Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy. He started his career as an SCM engineer and later moved on to learn various tools and technologies in the fields of automation and DevOps. Throughout his career, Nikhil has promoted and implemented Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery solutions across diverse IT projects.
He enjoys finding new and better ways to automate and improve manual processes and help teams know more about their project's SDLC by bringing valuable metrics. He is also actively working on utilizing Elastic Stack and container technologies efficiently for DevOps.

In his spare time, Nikhil likes to read, write, and meditate. He is an avid climber and also hikes and cycles.

You can reach Nikhil on twitter at @otrekpiko.

Deep Mehta is a DevOps engineer who works in CI/CD automation. He is currently working in the San Francisco Bay Area. He helps clients design resilient infrastructure, identifying top microservices patterns and self-healing infrastructure automation. His area of interest is large-scale distributed computing, data science, cloud, and system administration.

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In the past few years, the agile model of software development has seen a considerable amount of growth around the world. There is massive demand for a software delivery solution that is fast and flexible to frequent amendments, especially in the e-commerce sector. As a result, the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery methodologies are gaining popularity.

Whether small or big, all types of project gain benefits, such as early issue detection, avoiding lousy code into production, and faster delivery, which leads to an increase in productivity.

This book, Learning Continuous Integration with Jenkins Second Edition, serves as a step-by-step guide to setting up a Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment system using hands-on examples. The book is 20% theory and 80% practical. It starts by explaining the concept of Continuous Integration and its significance in the Agile world, with a complete chapter dedicated to this. Users then learn to configure and set up Jenkins, followed by implementing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery using Jenkins. There is also a small chapter on Continuous Deployment, which talks primarily about the difference between Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment.