Jenkins Essentials

Continuous Integration – setting up the stage for a DevOps culture

About This Book

• Explore continuous integration and automation, along with how to manage and configure Jenkins
• Discover the process of using Jenkins to build, test, and package Java applications
• Learn about the extensible features of Jenkins with the use of advanced plugins

Who This Book Is For

If you are a Jenkins novice or beginner with a basic understanding of continuous integration, then this is the book for you. Beginners in Jenkins will get quick hands-on experience and gain the confidence to go ahead and explore the use of Jenkins further.

What You Will Learn

• Get to grips with the challenges faced by developer communities
• Learn about continuous integration and how it helps in building various Java applications
• Facilitate the installation and configuration of Jenkins
• Install and configure code repositories and build tools
• Explore the integration of Eclipse with code repositories
• Manage the integration of Jenkins, code repositories, and build tools
• Familiarize yourself with continuous integration for Java applications with unit test execution and static code analysis

In Detail

In agile development practices, developers need to integrate their work frequently to fix bugs or to create a new feature or functionality. To integrate all work efficiently and verify it is an error-prone and time-consuming manual task. Jenkins is used specifically for continuous integration, helping to enforce the principles of agile development.

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. Finally, you'll explore the automated deployment of an application in Tomcat, along with details on managing and configuring Jenkins based on your requirements by using plugins.