Building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline With Jenkins (and Gradle, Git, Gerrit, Artifactory, Sonar, Jacoco, and Docker)

About this Presentation

Create your own model Continuous Deliver pipeline in a VM using Jenkins, Gradle, Git, Gerrit, Artifactory, Sonar, Jacoco, and Docker. Learn about each of these technologies in brief and see how to integrate them into Jenkins through plugins or scripting. See how to generate and access reports for running testcases, pass/fail for code metrics, coverage info, etc. Learn how to deploy a webapp with a database backend in multiple Docker containers for functional or UAT tests. Learn Jenkins techniques to pass information, environments, and artifacts between jobs in the pipeline.

Important setup required before the workshop:

You will need a laptop for this workshop with the applications as discussed below.

In this workshop, we use a preconfigured VM which requires Virtualbox to be running on your system. Please see https://github.com/brentlaster/conf/blob/master/rwx2016/JDP-Setup.pdf and follow the directions there. (Note: You do not need to do the part about changing the timezone on the VM since RWX 2016 will be in the EST timezone.)

As noted in the PDF, the VM can be downloaded from: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/bclconf/CDPipeline/RWX_2016.ova

Please be aware that this VM is ~6G in size and will require significant time to download. Free space of 20G (prior to the download to allow for the download, running the VM, etc.) is recommended on your system for best performance.

In this hands-on workshop, we create a Continuous Delivery pipeline with Jenkins and 7 other technologies. We assemble the Review stage with automated verification builds and code-review via Git and Gerrit. Then we move on to the Commit stage with compiles and unit tests, integration testing via Gradle, code analysis with Sonar and Jacoco, packaging, and publishing of our artifact into Artifactory. Next we handle the acceptance stage of retrieving our artifact and deploying them automatically to a functional test environment in Docker containers. In the final stage, we show how to deploy to a production web engine.

Throughout this workshop, we briefly survey each of these technologies and provide working examples of integrating each of them within Jenkins. Everything is contained within a Linux VM that each participant will have. After the labs, each participant will have their own working Continuous Delivery pipeline.

Users will need a modern laptop with VirtualBox installed and the ability to run images as well as about 20Gig of free disk space.