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Jenkins Essentials - Second Edition

By : Mitesh Soni
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Jenkins Essentials - Second Edition

By: Mitesh Soni

Overview of this book

<p>In agile development practices, developers need to integrate their work frequently to fix bugs or to create a new feature or functionality. Jenkins is used specifically for Continuous Integration, helping to enforce the principles of agile development. This book focuses on the latest and stable release of Jenkins (2.5 and later), featuring the latest features, such as Pipeline as Code, the new setup experience, and the improved UI. With the all-new Pipeline as Code feature, you will be able to build simple or advanced pipelines easily and rapidly, hence improving your teams' productivity.</p> <p>This book begins by tackling the installation of the necessary software dependencies and libraries you'll need to perform Continuous Integration for a Java application. From there, you'll integrate code repositories, applications, and build tools for the implementation of Continuous Integration.</p> <p>Finally, you will also learn how to automate your deployment on cloud platforms such as AWS and Microsoft Azure, along with a few advanced testing techniques.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Chapter 5. Continuous Delivery - Implementing Automated Deployment

Once we have a package ready for deployment after Continuous Integration, our next step should be deployment of that package in to a web or application server.

We can deploy WAR files manually, or with commands (batch file or shell script), or with Jenkins plugins, or any third-party tool that can be integrated with Jenkins. In our case, we will use Jenkins plugins for application deployment into runtime environments, which can be local or remote.

This chapter will take one step forward in the DevOps pipeline by deploying artifacts in local or remote application servers. It will give insight into automated deployment and continuous delivery processes and it will also cover how to deploy applications on public cloud platforms using Jenkins. In this chapter, we will cover following topics:

  • An overview of Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment
  • Installing Tomcat
  • Deploying a war file from Jenkins to Tomcat
  • Deploying a war file...