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Mastering Jenkins

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Product type Book
Published in Oct 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784390891
Pages 334 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
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Jonathan McAllister Jonathan McAllister
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Mastering Jenkins
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Setup and Configuration of Jenkins 2. Distributed Builds – Master/Slave Mode 3. Creating Views and Jobs in Jenkins 4. Managing Views and Jobs in Jenkins 5. Advanced Automated Testing 6. Software Deployments and Delivery 7. Build Pipelines 8. Continuous Practices 9. Integrating Jenkins with Other Technologies 10. Extending Jenkins Index

Continuous Integration


Continuous Integration (CI) as an engineering practice has its roots back to the 1980's and now antiquated CVS glory days. Widespread adoption of Continuous Integration practices didnt really occur until after the introduction of Extreme Programming (XP) in the year 2000. XP identified Continuous Integration in its doctrine and continues to be evangelized through the tireless work of Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, and Don Wells.

The XP approach to CI specifically advocated for trunk-based development (or very short-lived feature branches), coupled with frequent integrations into a shared mainline (daily), automatically triggered builds, unit testing, and rapid feedback loops. Since its inception, there have been many debates and heated discussions by technologists surrounding best practices, implementation strategies, and branching patterns. ThoughtWorks best describes Continuous Integration on its website via the following definition:

Continuous Integration (CI) is a development...

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