Summary

In this chapter of Mastering Jenkins, we discovered all things continuous. We learned the history and background of Kaizen, Continuous Integration, and related disciplines. We should now have a solid understanding of how to advocate for and develop Kaizen, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment practices at an organization. We also learned how to connect Jenkins into SVN and GitHub to facilitate automated, push-based builds. We discovered examples for maintaining a stable mainline using feature toggles, branching by abstraction, and automation. From our examples of each, we should be able to build upon and drive best practice implementations in Jenkins. We also learned some key differences between each of the Continuous Practices and learned how to differentiate these in Jenkins.

In the next chapter of Mastering Jenkins, we will learn how to integrate Jenkins into Selenium, Ansible, Docker, and other highly-valued DevOps solutions. Our journey will...