Jenkins 2.x Continuous Integration Cookbook

Book excerpt: Get a problem-solution approach enriched with code examples for practical and easy comprehension About This Book Explore the use of more than 40 best-of-breed plug-ins for improving efficiency Secure and maintain Jenkins 2.x by integrating it with LDAP and CAS, which is a Single Sign-on solution Efficiently build advanced pipelines with pipeline as code, thus increasing your team's productivity Who This Book Is For If you are a Java developer, a software architect, a technical project manager, a build manager, or a development or QA engineer, then this book is ideal for you. A basic understanding of the software development life cycle and Java development is needed, as well as a rudimentary understanding of Jenkins. What You Will Learn Install and Configure Jenkins 2.x on AWS and Azure Explore effective ways to manage and monitor Jenkins 2.x Secure Jenkins 2.x using Matrix-based Security Deploying a WAR file from Jenkins 2.x to Azure App Services and AWS Beanstalk Automate deployment of application on AWS and Azure PaaS Continuous Testing – Unit Test Execution, Functional Testing and Load Testing In Detail Jenkins 2.x is one of the most popular Continuous Integration servers in the market today. It was designed to maintain, secure, communicate, test, build, and improve the software development process. This book will begin by guiding you through steps for installing and configuring Jenkins 2.x on AWS and Azure. This is followed by steps that enable you to manage and monitor Jenkins 2.x. You will also explore the ways to enhance the overall security of Jenkins 2.x. You will then explore the steps involved in improving the code quality using SonarQube. Then, you will learn the ways to improve quality, followed by how to run performance and functional tests against a web application and web services. Finally, you will see what the available plugins are, concluding with best practices to improve quality. Style and approach This book provides a problem-solution approach to some common tasks and some uncommon tasks using Jenkins 2.x and is well-illustrated with practical code examples.