Summary
Today, there are various methods and means to facilitate automated deployments for a software project. Whatever the technology is, we can learn and innovate creative ways to attach that to Jenkins. By attaching our deployments to Jenkins, we can move Jenkins into the realm of an automation orchestration platform and out of the realm of grandma's build tool. Whichever way you decide to implement automated deployments, be sure to try and facilitate the following best practice features:
Deploying any version of a software solution should be as easy as a button click
Rolling forward or backward in time should also be a button click
Maintaining your environmental configurations in code form (infrastructure as code)
In this chapter of Mastering Jenkins we discovered some innovative ways we can approach software delivery and some tricks we can leverage to automate deployments. We learned about packaging, and versioning our tests as well as automation scripts. We covered artifact repositories...
