Hands-on Pipeline as YAML with Jenkins: A Beginner's Guide to Implement CI/CD Pipelines for Mobile, Hybrid, and Web Applications Using Jenkins (English Edition)

By Mitesh Soni

This book brings solid practical knowledge on how to create YAML pipelines using Jenkins for efficient and scalable CI/CD pipelines. It covers an introduction to various essential topics such as DevOps, DevOps History, Benefits of DevOps Culture, DevOps and Value Streams, DevOps Practices, different types of pipelines such as Build Pipeline, Scripted Pipeline, Declarative Pipeline, YAML Pipelines, and Blue Ocean.

This book provides an easy journey to readers in creating YAML pipelines for various application systems, including Android, AngularJS, Flutter, and Ionic Cordova. You will become a skilled developer by learning how to run Static Code Analysis using SonarQube or Lint tools, Unit testing, calculating code coverage, publishing unit tests and coverage reports, verifying the threshold of code coverage, creating build/package, and distributing packages across different environments.

By the end of this book, you will be able to try out some of the best practices to implement DevOps using Jenkins and YAML.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BPB Online LLP
• Release date: Jun 14, 2021
• ISBN: 9789390684717

Book preview

CHAPTER 1

Introducing Pipelines

DevOps, Continuous Practices, or DevOps Practices! DevOps is a cultural movement for transformation! It is a movement that gives human touch in the team with caring and sharing knowledge, enabling and empowering people, setting up effective, and efficient processes for faster time to market with speed and quality.

In this book, we will focus on Jenkins and different types of pipelines we can create in Jenkins. Jenkins 2.0 provides new features such as Pipeline as code – technical aspect, a new setup experience, and other UI improvements – enhancements with Jenkins interface. The entire user experience had a drastic change. Easy navigation to a different section in the job configuration is an eye-catching difference.

In this chapter, we will focus on an overview of Jenkins and also pipeline evolution from Build Pipeline, Scripted Pipeline, Declarative Pipeline, Blue Ocean, and Pipeline as a YAML. In this book, we will create CICD pipeline using YAML.

Structure

In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

What is DevOps?

Benefits of DevOps

DevOps practices

Pipelines

Build pipeline

Scripted pipeline

Declarative pipeline

Blue Ocean

Pipeline as a YAML

Objectives

This chapter introduces all the areas that encompass the field of DevOps and DevOps practices implementation, an overview of Jenkins, Azure DevOps, different types of pipelines, and its evolvement over the years. After studying this unit, you should be able to:

Understand the concept of DevOps

Discuss the types of Continuous Practices such as Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery

Understand the importance of Mindset, People, Processes, and Tools

Discuss the different DevOps practices

Understand prerequisites before installing Jenkins

How to install Jenkins

How to change Port and JENKINS_HOME

Basic installation and configuration

Best practices of Jenkins configuration

What is DevOps?

DevOps is a disruptive shift in how to manage the mindsets of people, ways of working, and the Application Lifecycle Management Cycle. It is a process of transforming culture rather than implementing tools or a tool-specific approach. DevOps is all about culture transformation using a combination of people, processes, and tools. DevOps is known to be associated with practices such as continuous code inspections, continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), continuous testing, continuous monitoring, continuous feedback, continuous improvement, and continuous innovation.

Now, DevOps practices also accommodate infrastructure provisioning in the cloud, infrastructure as a code, configuration management, and pipeline as a Code too.

DevOps