Pranoday Pramod Dingare - CI/CD Pipeline Using Jenkins Unleashed : Solutions While Setting Up CI/CD Processes

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This book will help readers understand continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery, and continuous deployment (CD) with Jenkins. These processes allow users as well as administrators to catch problems as soon as they are injected into software systems.

This book starts with an introduction to Jenkins and covers its architecture and role in CI/CD. The basics are covered, including installing and configuring Jenkins. Tool configuration and plugins are discussed as well as available security measures such as credentials. Readers will learn what is meant by jobs in Jenkins, including their types, sections, and much more. The book explains Java API: projects, jobs, and configuration. The chapters take you through creating pipelines, their role in managing web apps, and distributed pipelines. There are lot of examples and scenarios included to explain the workings of the distributed version control system called Git and working with it using different authentication techniques like SSH. The book also covers unit testing with TestNG as well as end-to-end testing using Selenium Python as part of building a lifecycle and setting up Jenkins on different physical and Docker environments. It also explains Jenkins integration with cloud environments such as AWS. This book covers how to create reusable libraries for use in Jenkins pipelines and how to control Jenkins servers using Jenkins CLI and REST APIs.

The book helps you understand CI/CD implementation using Jenkins from scratch in your projects and prepares you for end-to-end DevOps practices.

Who Is This Book For

This book is best suited for developers and test automation professionals who are involved in creating CI/CD pipelines as well as prospective DevOps aspirants who want to make their way as professionals.

It has been one of my oldest dreams to write a book of my own. First of all, I would like to thank Apress in helping me find the author inside and helping me achieve this dream. I would like to extend a sincere thanks to my acquisition editor, Spandana Chatterjee, for such a nice proposal and for being the first person to trust my writing skills. We had countless discussions about the content to be presented in the book and Spandana made this an excellent book. I am sure their suggestions and feedback will help me become a much better author. Thank you also to Laura Berendson for being such a nice mentor and giving me the confidence when I needed it. I would like to thank Mark Powers for tolerating my writing mistakes and helping me make this book better with his expertise and suggestions. Thanks to Divya Modi for guiding me through this process and making me comfortable.

I am thankful to the HR department, the executive management, the team leaders, and all my colleagues from Magic Software Enterprises for encouraging me throughout this journey.

A special thanks to my father Pramod Dingare and mother Rajani Dingare for always encouraging me to take different paths in life and for supporting me when I was trying to make my way as an actor, software professional, trainer, and now as an author. Thanks to my wife Aruna Dingare for tolerating my busy writing schedule and helping with her MS Word skills when necessary. Thanks to my lovely son Rugved Dingare for being my source of energy, which I needed dearly throughout this writing journey.

I would like to thank the entire Dingare family for leading by example and inspiring me throughout my life since childhood.

I would like to thank countless authors who unknowingly inspired me to pursue this dream of being author one day!

Last but definitely not the least thanks to all my students for helping me grow as a constant learner.